Stretch Out
- Stretch out Your hand across the troubled sea
And calm the tempest raging in our hearts;
Call out to reassure us in these parts
As if we followed You in Galilee. - Send baskets round of loaves and fish to feed
We who are starved of honest, wholesome food;
Teach us to concentrate on what is good,
Curbing our cravings, fit through what we need. - Cast out the spirits making us unclean
Where we discern their presence everywhere
But in ourselves, content to leave them there
To goad us into what we know is mean. - Yet have we all: The Holy Spirit's fire;
The church and Sacrament; our Risen Lord.
What more need we, in full accord
To worship and witness, suffer and inspire?