O God of Life, Your Healing Touch

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O God of life, your healing touch
Brings wholeness and salvation!
In you, this world you love so much
Becomes a new creation.

Through Jesus Christ you blessed the poor,
Unleashed your gifts of healing.
You gave new sight, new strength, new life—
To all, your love revealing.

O Christ, the loving healer still,
You gather us for mission
To serve your people who are ill,
Whatever their condition.

You send us to the suffering
With medicine and caring;
Now make our lives an offering
To those who are despairing.

Lord, by your Spirit, may we hear
The truth of others’ stories.
May we respect their doubts and fears,
Their hopes and dreams, their worries.

And when their ways are not our own,
Lord, give us understanding:
Our faith cannot be fully grown
When we are too unbending.

How long, Lord, shall we serve the poor—
A week, a month, a season?
We ask the question, hoping for
A limit to our mission.

But open wide our hearts anew
And show us, as we’re giving,
Your life-long call to serving you
In daily, generous living.

Source: Songs of Grace: new hymns for God and neighbor #57a

Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has been a pastor in rural, small town, suburban, and city churches; she has also served as a hospice chaplain, a hospital chaplain, and a school bus aide helping children with special needs. She and her husband Bruce are pastors of the First Presbyterian Union Church in Owego, NY. Carolyn is a gifted hymn writer who has written over 400 hymns. These hymns have been sung by congregations throughout the United States and around the world — from the Washington National Cathedral to St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland to St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa to small town churches and small household congregations; they have also been sung at national church and international ecumenical meetin… Go to person page >

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First Line: O God of life, your healing touch
Title: O God of Life, Your Healing Touch
Original Language: English
Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (2004)
Meter: 8.7.8.7
Language: English
Publication Date: 2004
Copyright: Copyright © 2004 The Center for Christian Ethics, Baylor Univ., Waco, Texas, Used with permission.

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