How Can I Keep From Singing: Fresh Texts to Familiar
Hymns
You are invited to celebrate and use the hymn texts that I will be publishing on Susbstack. Please contact me for permission to use. There will be no fee. I want to get feedback as to where they are sung and how the fresh text is received.
These texts can also be used for your personal meditation. Look up the tune online and then sing along. Last week’s Substack “Arise, O Church” is the first offering. I will serve them up in alphabetical order.
Thank you for the opportunity to leave a small legacy.
Rev. Kenn Storck
May 23, 2022
Hymn #2
- Bring Shalom
Advent or Christmas Season
Tune:
Un Flambeau
Meter: 9.
9. 10. 9. 9. 8.
1. Bring, O Prince of Peace, divine
justice.
Bring justice to our everyday lives.
You are an infant born in a stable.
Lay in the hay our precious Savior.
Peace! Peace!
Delivering God’s Shalom to all.
Now! Now!
Now and forevermore.
2. Bring your love Divine One now with
us.
Bring your love to the places of hurt.
You indeed know our dearest of
yearnings.
Deep in our hearts today be present.
Love! Love!
The darkness shatters, scatters.
Come, Come!
Come, O Emmanuel.
3. Bring your torch, O Wonderful Couns’lor.
Healing bring to a sin-broken world.
Come in our midst uniting all peoples.
Arms reaching out welcome the strangers.
Star! Star!
Bethlehem’s longed for promise
Shine! Shine!
Now and forevermore.
Hymn with this tune: “Bring a Torch, Janet Isabella”
Text
copyright @2018 by Kenn Storck
May be
used with permission
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