Author: Fred Pratt Green Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 9 hymnals Lyrics: 1 When our confidence is shaken
in beliefs we thought secure,
when the spirit in its sickness
seeks but cannot find a cure,
God is active in the tensions
of a faith not yet mature.
2 Solar systems, void of meaning,
freeze the spirit into stone;
always our researches lead us
to the ultimate unknown.
Faith must die, or come full circle
to its source in God alone.
3 In the discipline of praying,
when it's hardest to believe;
in the drudgery of caring,
when it's not enough to grieve;
faith, maturing, learns acceptance
of the insights we receive.
4 God is love, and thus redeems us
in the Christ we crucify;
this is God's eternal answer
to the world's eternal why.
May we in this faith maturing
be content to live and die! Topics: Life of Discipleship Faith and Hope; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Faith and Hope; Faith; Hope Used With Tune: LAUDA ANIMA
When Our Confidence Is Shaken