We wait in hope for hope to come (website only)

Festivals and Seasons:
Advent
Authors & translators:
Hill, Gareth
Tune:
Deep Harmony
Tune:
Niagara
Tune:
O Waly Waly

We wait in hope for hope to come:
promised of old; the righteous one.
Help us to watch, expect and pray
and then to greet Messiah’s day.

We read the story of your plan:
this world redeemed by heaven’s Son.
Grace breaks upon the present time;
mercy and hope through David’s line.

We hear the prophet’s voice ring clear:
‘changed hearts and lives are needed here’.
So, when the Spirit fires your Church,
make us a sign for all who search.

We go to share this great Good News:
heirs of the promise – we will choose
to live in hope that all may sing
praises to Christ, the infant king.

Words © 2013 Gareth Hill Publishing/Song Solutions CopyCare, 14 Horsted Square, Uckfield, TN22 1QG www.songsolutions.org

Metre: 88.88 (Long Metre)

Suggested tunes: Gareth suggests "Deep Harmony" (StF 90); "Niagara" (StF 596) is more upbeat; "O Waly Waly" (StF 607) adds a reflective, arguably more personal, dimension to the words.

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