Here’s a beautiful new contemporary hymn for Thanksgiving, written by Timothy Dudley-Smith. The song is copyright Hope Publishing Company, so in order to use it legally you’ll need to have a CCLI, LicenSing or OneLicense copyright license, and report the song’s use. For more information, visit: www.hopepublishing.com
With Praise and High Thanksgiving
With praise and high thanksgiving we come before your face,
the Lord of all things living, upholding time and space.
We come with adoration for spirit, breath and birth,
O God of all creation, who formed our fertile earth.
For sunlit skies above us, for wealth of land and seas,
for human hearts to love us, we bring our thanks for these.
For blessings freely given, for life and length of days,
we lift our songs to heaven in thankfulness and praise.
But more than all, for Jesus, who loosed us from our chain;
who by his dying frees us from sin and death's domain.
For Chrit's unfading treasure, his Spirit on us poured,
we praise beyond all measure our high and holy Lord.
Timothy Dudley-Smith
Words © 2010 Hope Publishing Company
Tune suggestions:
The hymn is in 7.6.7.6.D meter. Here’s are some tunes that would work with this text.
· BENTLEY
· AURELIA
For other song suggestions for Thanksgiving Day worship, see these other blog posts:
For other great new hymn texts, be sure to visit Hope Publishing’s Online Hymnody website.
For more creative worship resources for Thanksgiving Sunday or Harvest celebrations, click on Thanksgiving Sunday in the list of “Labels” at the lower right side of the page, or see this Thanksgiving Day Resources index.
