1. How can we name a Love
    That wakens heart and mind,
    Indwelling all we know or think
    Or do or seek or find?
    Within our daily world,
    In every human face,
    Love’s echoes sound and God is found,
    Hid in the commonplace.
  1. If we awoke to life
    Built on a rock of care
    That asked no great reward but firm,
    Assured, was simply there,
    We can, with parents’ names
    Describe, and thus adore,
    Love unconfined, a father kind,
    A mother strong and sure.
  1. When people share a task,
    And strength and skills unite
    In projects old or new, to make
    Or do with shared delight,
    Our Friend and Partner’s will
    Is better understood,
    That all should share, create, and care,
    And know that life is good.
  1. So in a hundred names,
    Each day we all can meet
    A presence, sensed and shown at work,
    At home, or in the street.
    Yet every name we see,
    Shines in a brighter sun:
    In Christ alone is Love full grown
    And life and hope begun.

    Brian Wren, 1973 | © 1975 Hope Publishing Co. | Used with permission under OneLicense.net #A-729396 | All rights reserved