We wait in hope for hope to come (website only)
- Festivals and Seasons:
- Advent
- Authors & translators:
- Hill, Gareth
- Metre:
- 88.88. Long Metre
- Tune:
- Deep Harmony
- Tune:
- Niagara
- Tune:
- O Waly Waly
- Hymns on StF+:
- Hymns only online (submit to stfplus@methodistchurch.org.uk)
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.