God of All the Earth (AOV 2/134)

This is another recent text used on an older tune. Sr Miriam Therese Winter wrote the words and the tune is by Frederick C. Maker. It is supposed to sound like the sample at AOV.

You can read a bio of Sr Winter here.

My backing went a little strange, but should be fine for learning, if nothing else.

1 We praise You, God of all the earth,

and all Your ways we bless.

In You all love begins and ends.

Your universal love transcends our own dividedness.

2 We call to You with words we clothe

in cultures of our own.

You rise above all cultic claims

to answer to our many names, a God as yet unknown.

3 O Wisdom, wait within us, wake

our weary hearts to praise.

Empowering the powerless

and strengthening with gentleness, ’til all embrace Your ways.

4 Our many paths all lead to You

in ev’ry time and place.

Our hearts rejoice in serving You,

make all we are and all we do a channel of your grace.

5 We turn to You, O Sacred Source

of hope and harmony.

Our work on earth will not be done,

’til human hearts all beat as one in global unity.

© Medical Mission Sisters 1991.

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