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Thanks be to God for his saints of each past generation

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Stages of Life Lyrics: 1 Thanks be to God for his saints of each past generation, one with us still in one body, one great congregation; with them proclaim Jesus for ever the same, Author of life and salvation. 2 Thanks be to God for his blessings which daily surround us; glory to Christ, the Redeemer who sought us and found us, who from the grave rose, the almighty to save, breaking the fetters that bound us. 3 Thanks be to God for the years that are yet in his keeping, trusting each day to the care of a Father unsleeping, on to the end, Christ our companion and friend, joy at the last for our weeping. 4 Thanks be to God who has called us and daily defends us, who with the Son and the Spirit unchanging befriends us; now in that name, Jesus for ever the same, forth to his service he sends us. Scripture: Hebrews 13:8 Used With Tune: LOBE DEN HERREN

Year by year, from past to future

Author: Alan Luff (b. 1928) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Stages of Life Lyrics: 1 Year by year, from past to future worship marks our upward climb, sets the rhythm of our journey to eternity through time: though the outward things diminish we are held more firm by grace, following God's heavenward calling and the everlasting prize. 2 As we seek to weave life's fabric on the lengthening loom of days, may Christ guide the threads that form it, be the pattern it displays; may the Father, master craftsman, sorrowing over each mistake, plan for us a new perfection from the ugliness we make. 3 Though we long for the adventure of the mystery of bliss, to the pilgrim's eyes the pathway breaks, and ends in death's abyss; but within the dark are waiting hands that bear the print of nails, which will hold us safe and bear us where the worship never fails. Scripture: John 14:1-4 Used With Tune: EBENEZER

O Lord of every shining constellation

Author: Albert Frederick Bayly (1901-1984) Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 25 hymnals Topics: Stages of Life Scripture: Genesis 1:26-27 Used With Tune: HIGHWOOD

Hush, my dear child, lie still and slumber

Appears in 58 hymnals Topics: The Stages of Life Cradle hymns

Thou Lord from whom all blessings flow

Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: The Stages of Life Marriage Hymn

God of my childhood and my youth

Appears in 92 hymnals Topics: The Stages of Life Old Age

Lord, As a Pilgrim

Author: Wihelmi Malmivaara, 1854-1922; Gilbert E. Doan, 1930- Meter: 9.9.5.5.4 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Stages of Life First Line: Lord, as a pilgrim through life I go Scripture: Psalm 31 Used With Tune: OI HERRA, JOS MÄ MATKAMIES MAAN

Christ be the Lord of all our days

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Stages of Life Lyrics: 1 Christ be the Lord of all our days, the swiftly passing years: Lord of our unremembered birth, heirs to the brightness of the earth; Lord of our griefs and fears. 2 Christ be the source of all our deeds, the life our living shares; the fount which flows from worlds above to never-failing springs of love; the ground of all our prayers. 3 Christ be the goal of all our hopes, the end to whom we come; guide of each pilgrim Christian soul which seeks, as compass seeks the pole, our many-mansioned home. 4 Christ be the vision of our lives, of all we think and are; to shine upon our spirits' sight as light of everlasting light, the bright and morning star. Scripture: John 14:6 Used With Tune: CLOTH FAIR

God of my life, to thee my cheerful soul

Appears in 66 hymnals Topics: The Stages of Life Birthday

God Made from One Blood

Author: Thomas H. Troeger Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Stages of Life First Line: God made from one blood all the families of earth Scripture: Acts 17:23-31 Used With Tune: DORIAN

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