God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
Praise you for your great mercy and grace
It surrounds us like the sea surrounds our Island home
We were not even looking for you we had turned away
Yet you sent your son Jesus to show us your love
To teach us your ways and to save us
We were lost in darkness, stumbling along blind
In Jesus you shone your great light in our life
Showed us the way and lead us home to you
Our sins held us fast and dragged us down
In Christ’s death and resurrection you give us forgiveness
By grace the shackles fall away and we are free
We find our selves tossed on the waves and battered by the winds
You speak your presence and peace into our lives
Your spirit is our comfort and our guide
We stand by feeling helpless as the storm rages round us
Yet you are with us and empowered us to witness to you
You enable us to reach out and pluck people to safety in you
We hug the shore seeking only safe haven, reluctant to venture too far
You go before us out into the deep and invite us to follow
AS we do we will see your wondrous works O Lord.
We cannot see over the horizon through the mist of time
Yet you O Lord are working your plans for Good
We have confidence of eternal life with you
Lord God we have been washed in your goodness
Wave after wave of mercy and love has crashed on our shore
Forgive us for our sins as we turn again to you
We have not loved you as we should
We have gone our own self-centered way
Help us to see its not all about us
We have not loved as you love
The tide is way out on our mercy and grace
Forgive and enable us to forgive
We have abused and misused your creation
Bent it to serve our greed, our power our hate
Help us to be good stewards O Lord
Thank you that as we have confessed our sin
You have been faithful and just and forgive us
Like a pristine beach in the dawn that the tide has swept clean of footprints We have been made new
Fill our sails, our lives, afresh with your spirit O God
That we may venture forth to serve you to follow you
Giving all glory to You O God, Father , Son and Holy Spirit
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