Impossible gifts are with God for the giving

Impossible gifts are with God for the giving,
the answer to questions, the focus of dreams;
for God offers hope and in grace is forgiving
transcending our hatred, confronting our schemes.

Imagine a picture of worthy acceptance
where strangers are welcomed as though they are friends;
where love is the judgment by which we are measured:
hospitable loving goes on, never ends.

Verse 3 follows

Tune: STCATHERINE’S COURT, STREETS OF LAREDO
Metre:12.11.12.11

 

Andrew Pratt (born 1948)

Words © 5/2/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. 

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