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480- Dear Lord and Father

Christian Life: Meditation and Prayer

1

  • Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
  • Forgive our foolish ways;
  • Reclothe us in our rightful mind,
  • In purer lives Thy service find,
  • In deeper reverence praise,
  • In deeper reverence, praise.

2

  • In simple trust like theirs who heard,
  • Beside the Syrian sea,
  • The gracious calling of the Lord,
  • Let us, like them, without a word,
  • Rise up and follow Thee,
  • Rise up and follow Thee.

3

  • O Sabbath rest by Galilee,
  • O calm of hills above,
  • Where Jesus knelt to share with Thee
  • The silence of eternity,
  • Interpreted by love,
  • Interpreted by love.

4

  • Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
  • Till all our strivings cease;
  • Take from our souls the strain and stress,
  • And let our ordered lives confess
  • The beauty of Thy peace,
  • The beauty of Thy peace.

5

  • Breathe thro' the heats of our desire,
  • Thy coolness and Thy balm;
  • Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
  • Speak thro' the earthquake, wind, and fire,
  • O still small voice of calm,
  • O still small voice of calm.