"Baptized and Set Free" ELW 453
The text for today's hymn cannot be published due to copyright limitations. We apologize for the inconvenience.
1. "We are fed and we're nourished."
We are people created, chosen by God.
Then we're washed, ever gently, in mercy and love.
Sin has power no more.
Jesus opened the door to a fountain bringing healing and wholeness and more.
2. We are fed and we're nourished, filled and refreshed.
Then our hunger returns and again we are blessed.
For whatever the need, God is greater, indeed:
endless ocean, always deeper than all of our need.
3. We are nourished by water, all living things, and by life that the Spirit abundantly brings.
As we journey toward home, may our presence be known:
precious river, ever-flowing, now carry us home.
4.
Now with praise and thanksgiving, we join the song.
All are welcome!
We gather to sing loud and strong.
Not enslaved, but set free!
From now on, all will be one in Jesus, one in water, baptized and set free!
But like those seeking Jesus, whose bellies were full, like the Israelites of old, who murmured against a God they did not know, we miss who God is in Jesus the Christ.
"Then our hunger returns and again we are blessed."
Blessed by the bread of angels that came down from heaven. Blessed by the bread of life.
Through the waters of baptism and when gathered at table, we are brought into relationship with a very present God. In community we are fed and blessed; we are filled and renewed by a God who gives of God's self over and over again—on the cross and as the bread of life.
"From now on, all will be one in Jesus ... "
Bread of Life, feed us, renew us, make us one. Amen.
Sanna Reinholtzen
Associate Pastor for Prayer and Healing
University Lutheran Chapel
Berkeley, Calif.
Master of Divinity , 1995
____________________________
No comments:
Post a Comment