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No storm can shake my inmost calm

Author: Doris Plenn; Robert Lowry (1822-1899) Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 144 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 5:15-20 First Line: My life flows on in endless song Topics: Thanksgiving; Pilgrimage Used With Tune: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING

Come Down, O Love Divine

Author: Bianco da Siena, 1350?-1434?; Richard Frederick Littledale, 1833-1890 Meter: 6.6.11 D Appears in 109 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 4:25-32, 5:1-2 Topics: Christian Character; Love; The Holy Spirit; Yearning Used With Tune: DOWN AMPNEY

Father, we thank thee!

Author: Mary Mapes Dodge Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 108 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 5:20 First Line: Can a little child like me Lyrics: 1 Can a little child like me Thank the Father fittingly? Yes, O yes! be good and true, Patient, kind in all you do; Love the Lord, and do your part; Learn to say with all your heart, Refrain: Father, we thank thee! Father, we thank thee! Father in heaven, we thank thee! 2 For the fruit upon the tree, For the birds that sing of thee, For the earth in beauty dressed, Father, mother, and the rest, For thy precious, loving care, For thy bounty everywhere, [Refrain] 3 For the sunshine warm and bright, For the day and for the night, For the lessons of our youth— Honor, gratitude and truth, For the love that met us here, For the home and for the cheer, [Refrain] 4 For our comrades and our plays, And our happy holidays, For the joyful work and true That a little child may do, For our lives but just begun, For the great gift of thy Son, [Refrain] Amen. Topics: Common Duties and Things; Thankfulness Used With Tune: THANKSGIVING

Ich singe dir mit herz und mund

Author: P. Gerhard, 1606-1676 Appears in 88 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 5:19-20 Topics: Lob- und Danklieder

Eternal Light! Eternal Light!

Author: Thomas Binney, 1798-1874 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 87 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 5:2 Lyrics: 1 Eternal Light! Eternal Light! How pure that soul must be, when, placed within thy searching sight, it shrinks not, but with calm delight can live and look on thee. 2 The spirits that surround thy throne may bear the burning bliss; but surely that is theirs alone, since they have never, never known a fallen world like this, 3 O how shall I, whose native sphere is dark, whose mind is dim, before the Ineffable appear, and on my naked spirit bear the uncreated beam? 4 There is a way for man to rise to that sublime abode; an offering and a sacrifice, a Holy Spirit's energies, an Advocate with God: 5 These, these prepare us for the sight of holiness above: the sons of ignorance and night may dwell in the eternal light, through the eternal Love! Topics: Sunday Next Before Lent; Proper 26 Year B Used With Tune: CHALFONT PARK

The voice that wakes the dead

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 85 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 5:14 First Line: Thou Son of God, whose flaming eyes Topics: The Sinner Awakening

Father, we praise you, now the night is over

Author: Percy Dearmer Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 82 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 5:18-20 Lyrics: 1 Father, we praise you, now the night is over; active and watchful, stand we all before you; singing, we offer prayer and meditation: thus we adore you. 2 Monarch of all things, fit us for your mansions; banish our weakness, health and wholeness sending; bring us to heaven, where your saints united joy without ending. 3 All holy Father, Son, and equal Spirit, Trinity blessed, send us your salvation; yours is the glory, gleaming and resounding through all creation. Topics: The Living God Our Response to God - in the morning and evening; The Being of God Holy and One; Adoration Of God; Eternal Life; God in Trinity Used With Tune: CHRISTE SANCTORUM Text Sources: 10th century or earlier