Gather us in (Here in this place) | Marty Haugen | Gathering Songs | Emmaus Music

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Recorded by Emmaus Music: https://www.youtube.com/@EmmausMusic​​​​​
The instrumental version of this beautiful hymn can be found here: https://youtu.be/DsvJH4M5yLo

© Marty Haugen

Lyrics:
Here in this place new light is streaming,
now is the darkness vanished away.
See in this space our fears and our dreamings,
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 to us now and we shall awaken,
we shall arise at the sound of our name.

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.

Here we will take the wine and the water.
Here we will take the bread of new birth.
Here you shall call your sons and your daughters,
call us anew to be salt for 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.

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