We place upon your table, Lord

We place upon your table, Lord

Author: M. F. C. Wilson
Tune: DISTRESS
Published in 3 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 We place upon your table, Lord,
where you by grace have bid us dine,
these tokens of our daily work,
the food of life, the bread and wine.

2 Within these simple things there lie
the height and depth of human life:
our pain and tears, our thoughts and toils,
our hopes and fears, our joy and strife.

3 Accept them, Lord; they come from you;
we take them humbly from your hand;
put these your gifts to higher use:
the holy meal that you command.

Source: Evangelical Lutheran Worship #467

Author: M. F. C. Wilson

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First Line: We place upon your table, Lord
Author: M. F. C. Wilson

Tune

DISTRESS


WINCHESTER NEW

The original version of WINCHESTER NEW appeared in Musikalisches Handbuch der geistlichen Melodien, published in Hamburg, Germany, in 1690 by Georg Wittwe. It was set to the text “Wer nur den lieben Gott” (see 446). An expanded version of the tune was a setting for "Dir, dir Jehova" (see 203) in…

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Evangelical Lutheran Worship #467

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