O Christ, the Healer

1 O Christ, the healer, we have come
to pray for health, to plead for friends.
How can we fail to be restored,
when reached by love that never ends?

2 From every ailment flesh endures
our bodies clamor to be freed;
yet in our hearts we would confess
that wholeness is our deepest need.

3 How strong, O Lord, are our desires,
how weak our knowledge of ourselves!
Release in us those healing truths
unconscious pride resists or shelves.

4 In conflicts that destroy our health,
we diagnose the world's disease;
our common life declares our ills:
is there no cure, O Christ, for these?

5 Grant that we all, made one in faith,
in your community may find
the wholeness that, enriching us,
shall reach the whole of humankind.

• Audio recording from Evangelical Lutheran Worship #610
• Audio recording from Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #793
• Audio recording from The United Methodist Hymnal #265
• MIDI file from The United Methodist Hymnal #265
  
• MIDI file from Worship and Rejoice #638