HYMN Lyrics Text: Here In This Place

1. Here in this place

new light is streaming

Now is the darkness vanished away

See, in this place

our fears and our dreaming

brought here to You

in the light of this day

Gather us in

the lost and forsaken

Gather us in

the blind and the lame

Call us now and we shall awaken

we shall arise

at the sound of Your name

2. We are the young

our lives are a mystery

We are the old

who yearn for your face

We have been sung

throughout all of history

called to be light

to the whole human race

Gather us in

the rich and the haughty

Gather us in

the proud and the strong

Give us a heart

so meek and so lowly

Give us the courage

to enter the song

3. Here we will take

the wine and the water

Here we will take

the bread of new birth

Here we shall call

Your sons and Your daughters

call us anew

to be salt of the earth

Give us to drink

the wine of compassion

Give us to eat the bread

that is You

Nourish us well

and teach us to fashion

lives that are holy

and hearts that are true

4. Not in the dark of buildings confine

not in some heaven

light years away

but here in this place

the new light is shining

Now is the kingdom, now is the day

Gather us in and hold us forever

Gather us in and make us Your own

Gather us in all people together

Fire of love

in our flesh and our bone