“Can These Bones Live?" Original Hymn (Lent, Seeking, Life)
“Can These Bones Live?" Original Hymn (Lent, Seeking, Life)
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This hymn, originally written for the Seeking bundle for Lent 2023, is created for use in congregational worship and other ministry contexts. We’ve set fresh words of faith to a well-loved public domain hymn tune for maximum singability.
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“Can These Bones Live?”
LAUDA ANIMA 8.7.8.7.8.7 (“Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2022
Music: John Goss, 1869
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Lyrics:
“Can These Bones Live?”
LAUDA ANIMA 8.7.8.7.8.7 (“Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2022
Music: John Goss, 1869
When the past is dead and buried
Lifeless in the barren ground
What good can emerge from ashes?
Where can any life be found?
Breathe in deep the rushing Spirit
Life is growing all around
When our hearts are bowed in sorrow
And the grief is newly wrought
Crying, “If you’d only been here”
Weeping for what we have lost
Resurrect our hearts and spirits
Living God whom we exalt
When our spirits feel so broken
Wrapped in linens and entombed
Without hope and without feeling
As the storm clouds ‘round us loom
Hear the words of life from Jesus
“Come out, be unbound” and bloom
credit info:
Hymn text by Rev. Anna Strickland | A Sanctified Art, LLC | sanctifiedart.org
