YOUR HEART TODAY [this is my song and my prayer]

Where there is fear I can allay, where there is pain I can heal,

Where there are wounds I can bind, and hunger I can fill.

Lord, grant me courage, Lord, grant me strength,

Grant me compassion that I may be Your heart today.

Where there is hate I can confront, where there are yokes I can release,

Where there are captives I can free, and anger I can appease.

Lord, grant me courage, Lord, grant me strength,

Grant me compassion that I may be Your heart today.

When comes the day I dread to see our broken world,

Compel me from my cell grown cold that Your people I may behold.

Where there is fear I can allay, where there is pain I can heal,

Where there are wounds I can bind, and hunger I can fill.

Lord, grant me courage, Lord, grant me strength,

Grant me compassion that I may be Your heart today.

And when I’ve done all that I could,

Yet there are hearts I cannot move,

Lord, give me hope… that I may be Your heart today.