“I Can Celebrate You" Original Hymn (Mary and Elizabeth, Support, Friendship)
“I Can Celebrate You" Original Hymn (Mary and Elizabeth, Support, Friendship)
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This hymn, originally written for the How Does a Weary World Rejoice bundle for Advent 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.
“I Can Celebrate You”
Inspired by Luke 1:24-45; Isaiah 40:1-11
Tune: CRANHAM (“In the Bleak Midwinter”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2023
Music: Gustav Holst (1906)
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Lyrics:
“I Can Celebrate You”
Tune: CRANHAM (“In the Bleak Midwinter”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2023
Music: Gustav Holst (1906)
I can celebrate you, I can hold your joy
When the load is crushing and you’ve lost your voice
I can celebrate the promise your life holds
When the weariness bears heavy on your soul
I can recognize good fruit that you will bear
When your own self-doubt hides gifts you have to share
I can recognize your Christ-light deep within
Every gift that God has sown waiting to begin
We can hold each other in our joy and fear
Knowing that the Spirit moves when we are near
We can hold each other, lift each other up
Filling one another from the Spirit’s cup
This optional verse may be used as a doxology for the season of Advent:
Praise the One Creator, praise the Living Christ
Praise the Holy Spirit, praise both day and night
Praise when you are weary, praise in times of joy
Praise, my soul, with all your strength and your heart and voice
credit info:
Hymn text by Rev. Anna Strickland | A Sanctified Art, LLC | sanctifiedart.org
