(Londonderry Air) CH4 729 - Colin Ferguson

Hymn “Hear me, dear Lord”

Hear me, dear Lord, in this my time of sorrow.
For even if I turn from you today
I need to know your love is there tomorrow
and new hope still can lighten up my way.
Forgive me, Lord, if in the tears of sadness
my anger makes me take your name in vain,
and life seems for a time to have no gladness,
while I refuse to let you share my pain.

Help me, my God, in the surrounding darkness,
to hold by faith the gospel I have read,
that, even in death’s unremitting starkness,
the Son of Man has risen from the dead.
So take my life that’s left with its misgivings;
from grief and pain create in me anew
a faith that finds in you a way of living,
a love that offers all it has to you.