General (Vol. 3)
Lord of All
- Our enterprises rise and fall,
What once was grand reduced to dust;
Ambitions falter and then stall,
Sometimes deserved, sometimes unjust:
But You are still the Lord of All,
The single point for faith and trust. - Our costs inflate, our savings shrink,
Our valued ways are cast aside;
Yet we still care what people think,
Less tied to wisdom, more to pride:
But with You we will never sink,
Brought homeward on the gentle tide. - Time after time we fail to learn,
As optimism fades to grief,
Admitting wrong, we freely turn
To You for counsel and relief:
But when the fire begins to burn
We flee, abandoning belief. - Through all these failures You still stand,
Our faithful God resolved to love;
For Jesus came at Your command
In human form Your love to prove:
And now The Spirit, as You planned,
Lives with us here, The Sacred Dove.