Loving Spirit
Loving Spirit, loving Spirit, you have chosen me to be -
you have drawn me to your wonder, you have set your sign on me.
Like a mother you enfold me, hold my life within your own,
feed me with your very body, form me of your flesh and bone.
Like a father you protect me, teach me the discerning eye,
hoist me up upon your shoulder, let me see the world from high.
Friend and lover, in your closeness I am known and held and blessed,
in your promise is my comfort, in your presence I may rest.
Loving Spirit, loving Spirit, you have chosen me to be -
you have drawn me to your wonder, you have set your sign on me.
Text: Shirley Erena Murray copyright 1987 The Hymn Society
Music: W. Walker, Southern Harmony, 1835
Evangelical Lutheran Worship Hymn 397
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