Jesus heals a leper – a hymn
One of this week’s lectionary readings Luke 17: 11-19 tells of Jesus meeting some lepers. He heals them…
17:14 When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were made clean.
17:15 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.
Only one offered thanks and so…
1 Strange how those, the least expected,
offer thanks for acts of grace;
while so many take for granted
costly gifts as common place.
2 Children take the care we offer,
never know what love has cost,
soon they grow in independence,
soon the bonds of birth seem lost.
3 But are our lives any better?
God has many things to give,
yet we also take for granted
all that feeds the lives we live.
4 Let us learn to grasp the treasure
that is given to our hands,
life and healing, joy and pleasure,
all that loving understands.
Andrew E Pratt (born 1948) Words © 2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd
8 7 8 7 Trochaic
Tune: LOVE DIVINE (Stainer)
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