Author: David Mowbray (born 1938) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #553a (1987) Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Lyrics: 1 O Master Christ, draw near to take
your undisputed place;
my gifts and faculties remake,
form and re-fashion for your sake
an instrument of peace.
2 O Master Christ, I choose to sow
in place of hatred, love;
where wounds and injuries are now
may healing and forgiveness grow
as gifts from God above.
3 O Master Christ, I choose to plant
hope where there is despair;
a warmth of joy, a shaft of light
where darkness has diminished sight,
where sorrow leaves its scar.
4 O Master Christ, make this my goal —
less to receive than give;
to sympathise - and to make whole,
to understand and to console
and so, through death, to live.
Topics: God's Church Commitment and Character; Pentecost 18 The Offering of Life; Pentecost 4 The Church's Mission to the Individual Languages: English Tune Title: BINNEY'S
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