How Can We Name a Love?

Music by Ron Klusmeier
Words by Brian Wren
Tune Name: OKOTOKS
How Can We Name a Love?

Lyrics as Poetry

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.If we awoke to life
upheld by loving care
that asked no great reward
but firm, assured,
was simply there,
we can, with parents’ names,
describe, and thus adore,
love unconfined,
our Father kind,
our Mother strong and sure.When people share a task,
and strength and skills unite
in projects or 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.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 names and titles all
shine in a brighter sun:
in Christ alone
is full love grown
and life and hope begun.

Words by
Brian WrenCopyright © 1975, 1995 by Hope Publishing Company
(Carol Stream, Illinois) for USA,
Canada, Australia and New Zealand.Copyright © 1975, 1995 by Stainer & Bell Limited
(London, England) for all other territories

Comments About Song

BRIAN WREN
from his book “Piece Together Praise” (p 139):

“TEXT”

Piece Together Praise
(A Theological Journey)
 is co-published by:Hope Publishing Company
Carol Stream, IL USA
(for USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand)Stainer & Bell, Limited
London, England
(for all other countries)

                                                    Audio Sample for "How Can We Name a Love?"

One verse with final ending
played on piano

Scripture References

  • Genesis 3:20
  • Genesis 32:30
  • Exodus 3:6
  • Exodus 20:12
  • Leviticus 19:18
  • Psalm 18:2
  • Psalm 27:10
  • Psalm 103:13
  • Proverbs 18:24
  • Song of Solomon 2:4
  • Song of Solomon 8:7
  • Isaiah 9:6
  • Isaiah 66:13
  • Jeremiah 31:3
  • Hosea 11:4
  • Amos 5:15
  • Micah 6:8
  • Matthew 5:16
  • Matthew 5:44
  • Matthew 6:9
  • Matthew 11:19
  • Matthew 15:4
  • Matthew 19:19
  • Matthew 25:34
  • Mark 12:31
  • Mark 14:36
  • Luke 2:48
  • Luke 6:27
  • Luke 8:6
  • Luke 11:5
  • Luke 14:10
  • Luke 15:29
  • Luke 22:42
  • Luke 23:34
  • Luke 23:46
  • John 2:1
  • John 3:16
  • John 5:42
  • John 6:31
  • John 14:7-21
  • John 15:12-14
  • John 17:20-21
  • John 17:26
  • Romans 8:35
  • Galatians 5:6
  • 1 John 4:19

Season, Theme
or Subject

  • God∶ love of
  • God∶ nature of
  • Life∶ loving life
  • Love∶ God's

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