a joyful song

Sing to the Lord a joyful song:

lift up your hearts, your voices raise.

To us his gracious gifts belong:

to him our songs of love and praise.

For life and love, for rest and food,

for daily help and nightly care,

sing to the Lord for he is good,

and praise his name, for it is fair.

For strength to those who on him wait,

his truth to prove, his will to do

praise ye our God, for he is great:

trust in his name, for it is true.

For joys untold that from above

cheer those who love his blest employ,

sing to our God, for he is love;

exalt his name, for it is joy.

For life below, with all its bliss,

and for the life, more pure and high,

that nobler life which after this

shall ever shine and never die.

-   from Magnificat, August 2018