Do not yearn for times that are past, but recognize that you have been given a foundation of faithful service, even as you build a foundation for what is yet to be.

Words by Ewald Joseph Bash, Community of Christ Sings 198

By the Babylonian Rivers

By the Babylonian rivers we sat down in grief and wept;
hung our harps upon a willow,
mourned for Zion while we slept.

There our captors, in derision,
did require of us a song;
So we sat with staring vision
And the days were hard and long.

How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange and bitter land;
Can our voices veil the sorrow?
Lord God, hear your lonely band.

Let your cross be benediction for those bound in tyranny;
by the pow’r of resurrection
Loose them from captivity.

© 1964 American Lutheran Church (admin. Augsburg Fortess)

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