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Take Us As We Are, O God
Author: Carl P. Daw Meter: 7.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1
Take us as we are, O God, and claim us as your own.
As once you chose to tell your love in human flesh
and bone,
so let our lives be used to make your saving
purpose known.
2
Bless us for your service, Lord; no power we devise
will ever give us strength enough or make us truly
wise,
yet by your promise we can know the peace your
3
Break us open to disclose how brokenness can
heal,
wherever broken loaves suffice to give a crowd a
meal
and graves break open to release new life from
death’s dread seal.
4
Give us to the world you love, as light and salt and
yeast,
that we may nourish in your name the last, the lost,
the least,
until at length you call us all to your unending feast.
Take Us As We Are, O God
ENDLESS FEAST
Meter: 7.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred V. Fedak Tune Key: F Major Used With Text: Take Us As We Are, O God
ENDLESS FEAST
Take Us As We Are, O God
Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Hymnal: Sing! A New Creation #125 (2002) Meter: 7.6.8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1
Take us as we are, O God, and claim us as your own.
As once you chose to tell your love in human flesh
and bone,
so let our lives be used to make your saving
purpose known.
2
Bless us for your service, Lord; no power we devise
will ever give us strength enough or make us truly
wise,
yet by your promise we can know the peace your
3
Break us open to disclose how brokenness can
heal,
wherever broken loaves suffice to give a crowd a
meal
and graves break open to release new life from
death’s dread seal.
4
Give us to the world you love, as light and salt and
yeast,
that we may nourish in your name the last, the lost,
the least,
until at length you call us all to your unending feast.
Topics: Epiphany Scripture: John 6:51 Languages: English Tune Title: ENDLESS FEAST
Take Us As We Are, O God
Take Us As We Are, O God
Author: Carl P. Daw Jr. Hymnal: Glory to God #312 (2013) Meter: 7.6.8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Take us as we are, O God,
and claim us as your own.
As once you chose to tell your love
in human flesh and bone,
so let our lives be used to make
your saving purpose known.
2 Bless us for your service, Lord;
no power we devise
will ever give us strength enough
or make us truly wise,
yet by your promise we can know
the peace your grace supplies.
3 Break us open to disclose
how brokenness can heal,
wherever broken loaves suffice
to give a crowd a meal
and graves break open to release
new life from death’s dread seal.
4 Give us to the world you love
as light and salt and yeast,
that we may nourish in your name
the last, the lost, the least,
until at length you call us all
to your unending feast.
Topics: The Church; Community in Christ; Evangelism; Ministry; Personal Peace; Service; Communion Scripture: Matthew 5:13-14 Languages: English Tune Title: ENDLESS FEAST
Take Us As We Are, O God
Take Us as We Are, O God
Author: Carl P. Daw Jr, b. 1944 Hymnal: Lift Up Your Hearts #862 (2013) Meter: 7.6.8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Take us as we are, O God,
and claim us as your own.
As once you chose to tell your love
in human flesh and bone,
so let our lives be used
to make your saving purpose known.
2 Bless us for your service, Lord;
no power we devise
will ever give us strength enough
or make us truly wise,
yet by your promise we can know
the peace your grace supplies.
3 Break us open to disclose
how brokenness can heal,
wherever broken loaves suffice
to give a crowd a meal
and graves break open to release
new life from death’s dread seal.
4 Give us to the world you love
as light and salt and yeast,
that we may nourish in your name
the last, the lost, the least,
until at length you call us all
to your unending feast.
Topics: Discipleship; Mission; Testimony/Witness Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16 Languages: English Tune Title: ENDLESS FEAST
Take Us as We Are, O God
Carl P. Daw Jr.
b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Author of "Take Us As We Are, O God" in Sing! A New Creation Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Emily Brink
Carl P. Daw Jr.
Alfred V. Fedak
b. 1953 Person Name: Alfred V. Fedak, b. 1953 Composer of "ENDLESS FEAST" in Sing! A New Creation Alfred Fedak (b. 1953), is a well-known organist, composer, and Minister of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York. He graduated from Hope College in 1975 with degrees in organ performance and music history. He obtained a Master’s degree in organ performance from Montclair State University, and has also studied at Westminster Choir College, Eastman School of Music, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, and at the first Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar at Clare College, Cambridge.
As a composer, he has over 200 choral and organ works in print, and has three published anthologies of his work (Selah Publishing). In 1995, he was named a Visiting Fellow in Church Music at Episcopal Seminary of the Soutwest in Austin, Texas. He is also a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, and was awarded the AGO’s prestigious S. Lewis Elmer Award. Fedak is a Life Member of the Hymn Society, and writes for The American Organist, The Hymn, Reformed Worship, and Music and Worship. He was a member of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song that prepared Glory to God, the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Laura de Jong
Alfred V. Fedak
