God we need your holy wisdom – a hymn written nearly 20 years ago…still pertinent, I fear.
1 God we need your holy wisdom,
need to know your presence here,
through audacious, fearless living,
and your dying, draw us near.
2 We are failing, needing loving,
so addicted to despair,
come with healing, mend the broken,
with your grace renew, repair.
3 Feed our rich imagination,
let the poets speak again
words of hope, profound redemption,
foil this sharp, systemic pain.
4 Then unleash our lives to follow
Christ our leader, yet our friend,
and through risks of selfless living,
find through love your goal, our end.
Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
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Metre: 8 7 8 7
Tune: CHAPEL BRAE; ALL FOR JESUS
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