“Can These Bones Live?" Original Hymn (Lent, Seeking, Life)

“Can These Bones Live?" Original Hymn (Lent, Seeking, Life)

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DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC DOWNLOAD

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.

License for congregational use is included in the purchase—no reporting to CCLI or other licensing agencies is required. To inquire about other uses, such as recording or publishing, please contact us.

“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

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