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Singing with Bonhoeffer

For anyone in need of reassurance, Bonhoeffer's New Year Hymn/Prayer versified by F Pratt Green with Keith Clements...

 

 By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered 

And confidently waiting, come what may,

We know that God is with us night and morning,

And never fails to meet us each new day.

 

Yet are our hearts by their old foe tormented

Still evil days bring burdens hard to bear;

O give our frightened souls the sure salvation

For which, O Lord, you taught us to prepare.

 

And when the cup you give is filled to brimming

With bitter suffering, hard to understand,

We take it gladly, trusting though with trembling,

Out of so good and so beloved a hand.

      

If once again, in this mixed world, you give us

The joy we had, the brightness of your sun,

We shall recall what we have learned through sorrow,

And dedicate our lives to you alone.

 

Now as your silence deeply spreads around us,

Open our ears to hear your children raise

From all the world, from every nation round us,

 To you their universal hymn of praise.

 

Tune: Finlandia.


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