“To Be Known" Original Hymn (Community, Ruth and Naomi)
“To Be Known" Original Hymn (Community, Ruth and Naomi)
DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC DOWNLOAD
This hymn, originally written for the Words for the Beginning bundle for Advent 2024, 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.
“To Be Known”
Tune: WALTHAM (“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2024
Music: John Baptiste Calkin (1872)
DOWNLOAD includes:
PDF sheet music with four-part harmony
PNG image of the lyrics and melody for use in bulletins
Lyrics to copy and paste for bulletins and screens
Lyrics:
”To Be Known”
Tune: WALTHAM (“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2024
Music: John Baptiste Calkin (1872)
Recall the truth that we once knew:
We were not made for solitude
We need communities of faith
Where we can feel God’s warm embrace
For in the garden God declared
That our brief lives on earth be shared
With partners, friends, and family
Who hold us in our joy and grief
In every age humanity
Relied on mutuality
Our God-breathed spirits weren’t designed
To be divided and confined
Both you and I are intertwined
The warp and weft of humankind
So please don’t try to go alone
Your human heart needs to be known
credit info:
Hymn text by Rev. Anna Strickland | A Sanctified Art, LLC | sanctifiedart.org
