The Lone Wild Bird (by Henry Richard McFayden and Marty Haugen)
The lone, wild bird in lofty flight
is still with you, nor leaves your sight.
And I am yours! I rest in you,
Great Spirit come, rest in me, too.
The ends of the earth are in your hand,
the sea’s dark deep and far off land.
And I am yours! I rest in you,
Great Spirit, come, rest in me, too.
Each secret thought is known to you,
the path I walk my whole life life through;
my days, my deeds, my hopes, my fears,
my deepest joys, my silent tears.
In secret depths you knit my frame,
before my birth you spoke my name;
within my soul, as close as breath,
so near to me, in life, in death.
O search me, God, my heart reveal,
renew my life, my spirit heal;
for I am yours, I rest in you,
Great Spirit come, rest in me, too.
