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Thread #57478   Message #903958
Posted By: Jeanie
05-Mar-03 - 10:13 AM
Thread Name: Your Favourite Hymn
Subject: RE: BS: Your Favourite Hymn
Well, that's a lovely thing to be thinking about while bored at work Boab/Dylan !

Here's my favourite - I love the words and the tune. I find it good to sing whatever circumstances life is bringing. Somehow it seems to put everything into a positive perspective. I have a wonderful memory of singing this with hundreds of people, raising the roof in a packed cathedral at a service for the start of the new Millennium -but I love singing it all on my own at home, too.

Great is your faithfulness, O God my Father,
You have fulfilled all your promise to me;
You never fail and your love is unchanging,
All you have been you for ever will be.

Great is your faithfulness !
Great is your faithfulness !
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed your hand has provided -
Great is your faithfulness, Father, to me.

Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in eloquent witness
To your great faithfulness, mercy and love.

Pardon for sin, and a peace everlasting,
Your living presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow -
These are the blessings your love will provide.

Great is your faithfulness !
Great is your faithfulness !
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed your hand has provided -
Great is your faithfulness, Father, to me.


(Based on verse from Lamentations 3:22-3)

- jeanie