Give thanks for life, the measure of our days;
mortal, we pass through beauty that decays,
yet sing to God our hope, our love, our praise:
hallelujah, hallelujah!
Give thanks for those who made their life a light
caught from the Christ-flame, bursting through the night,
who touched the truth, who burned for what is right:
hallelujah, hallelujah!
And for our own, our living and our dead,
thanks for the love by which our life is fed,
a love not changed by time or death or dread:
hallelujah, hallelujah!
Give thanks for hope, that like the wheat, the grain
lying in darkness does its life retain
in resurrection to grow a again:
hallelujah, hallelujah!
Sing the Journey #108
