Verse 1
How can we name a Love
That wakens heart and mind
Indwelling all we know
Or think or do
Or seek or find
Within our daily world
In every human face
Love's echoes sound
And God is found
Hid in the commonplace
Verse 2
If we awoke to life
built on a rock of care
That asked no great reward
But firm assured
Was simply there
We can with parents' names
Describe and thus adore
Love unconfined
a father kind
a mother strong and sure
Verse 3
When people share a task
And strength and skills unite
In projects old or new
To make or do
With shared delight
Our friend and partner's will
Is better understood
That all should share
Create and care
And know that life is good
Verse 4
So in a hundred names
Each day we all can meet
A presence sensed and shown
At work at home
Or in the street
Yet every name we see
Shine in a brighter sun
In Christ alone
Is Love full grown
And life and hope begun
