If all the world could live as one – A hymn for ALL SAINTS DAY
1 If all the world could live as one
respecting each and every need,
to be as neighbours sharing all,
then God’s commands could be our creed.
Much less a law to bind and tie,
but more descriptive of the life
we share in common care and love,
where there would be no sense in strife.
2 In such a world of harmony
our highest aim would be the good
of those we know who think like us
and those who we’ve misunderstood.
The fruit of action, word and thought
would demonstrate itself to be,
the keeping of God’s gracious law,
the birth of human liberty.
3 Our common task would be to share
the joy of hope, the pain of grief,
to live in humble faith and love
with those constrained by disbelief;
to show impartial grace to all,
to greet as brother, sister, friend,
the ones with whom we share this world,
to live the love that will not end.
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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Metre: LMD Tune ST PATRICT
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