When is it,Madhair?
We heard Finlandia this morning and dh asked what he hymn was we sang to that. I can never remember the first line, but I do remember it was written by Dietrich Bonnhoeffer very shortly before he was executed by the Germans at the end of the war.
I'm copying it here, not as a discussion point, but because I think it is just so beautiful
1 By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered,
And confidently waiting, come what may,
We know that God is with us night and morning
And never fails to greet us each new day.
2 Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented,
Still evil days bring burdens hard to bear;
O give our frightened souls the sure salvation
For which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare.
3 And when this cup You give is filled to brimming
With bitter suffering, hard to understand,
We take it thankfully and without trembling,
Out of so good and so beloved a hand.
4 Yet when again in this same world You give us
The joy we had, the brightness of Your sun,
We shall remember all the days we lived through,
And our whole life shall then be Yours alone.