Lovely, True, Good News

       Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      Son of God, eternal Savior,      Source of life and truth and grace,      Word made flesh, whose birth among us,      Honors all our human race,      You our head, who, throned in glory,      For your own will ever plead:      Fill us with your love and pity;      Heal our wrongs and help our need.      Come, O Christ, and reign among us,      King of love and Prince of Peace;      Hush the storm of strife and passion;      Bid its cruel discords cease.      By your patient years of toiling,      By your silent hours of pain,      Quench our fevered thirst for pleasure;      Stem our selfish greed for gain.      Bind us all as one together ...

      Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      Speak, O Lord, as we come to You      To receive the food of your holy word.      Take Your truth, plant it deep in us;      Shape and fashion us in Your likeness,      That the light of Christ might be seen today      In our acts of love and our deeds of faith.      Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us      All Your purposes, for Your glory.      Teach us Lord full obedience,      Holy reverence, true humility.      Test our thoughts and our attitudes      In the radiance of your purity.      Cause our faith to rise      Cause our eyes to see,      Your majestic love and authority.      Words of power that can never fail;      Let their truth prevail...

      Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      Jesus calls us over the tumult      Of our life’s wild, restless, sea;      Day by day his voice invites us,      Saying, “Christian, follow me!”      As the first disciples heard it      By the Galilean lake,      Turned from home and toil and kindred,      Leaving all for Jesus’ sake.      Jesus calls us from the worship      Of the vain world’s golden store,      From each idol that would keep us,      Saying, “Christian, love me more!”      In our joys and in our sorrows,      Days of toil and hours of ease,      Still he calls, in cares and pleasures,      “Christian, love me more than these!”      Jesus calls us! In your mercy,  ...

     Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      In his temple now behold him;      See the long-expected Lord.      Ancient prophets had foretold him;      God has now fulfilled his Word.      Now to praise him, his redeemed      Shall break forth with one accord.      In the arms of her who bore him,      Virgin pure, behold him lie,      While his aged saints adore him      Ere in faith and hope they die.      Alleluia! Alleluia!      See th' incarnate God most high!      Jesus, by your presentation,      You who did for us endure,      Let us see your great salvation,      Seal us with your promise sure,      And present us in your glory      To your Father, cleansed and pure. ...