Great God your love has held our lives
through all the years down to this day.
Your constant presence held us fast:
remain with us we plead and pray.
We've sen the ruins left by war,
the tumbled buildings, street by street;
some heard the voices that they loved
and cried for those they'd no more meet.
As time moves on some memories fade,
some griefs we shared lie in the past,
for others pain is just as sharp,
we know their hurt will always last.
Some human acts have swept away
our partners, parents, children, friends,
some people we had never known,
the memory lives and never ends.
Verse Three follows:
Tune: JERUSALEM (Parry); ST PATRICK
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 18/8/2011 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk.
Please include any reproduction for local church and school use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd.