Hymns by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette

Long Ago, God Reached In Love
JESUS LOVES ME (7.7.7.7) ("Jesus Loves Me")

Long ago, God reached in love, sending Noah back a dove,
Promising a world made dry, with a rainbow in the sky.

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      God, you are faithful,
      God, you are faithful,
      God, you are faithful:
      Your covenant is love!

Abraham and Sarah heard God's surprising, joyful word:
God would give them land and more: children they had long hoped for.

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Ten Commandments were the way God called people to obey,
For God wanted us to see: In obeying, we are free.

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Jeremiah came to know: God would help us change and grow;
So God's law would fill each heart, giving us a fresh, new start.

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Jesus came to show the way we can have new life today;
God fulfilled that loving plan, made for us when life began.

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Biblical References: Genesis 8, 9; Genesis 12, 18; Exodus 20; Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 3:16-17
Tune: William Batchelder Bradbury, 1862 ("Jesus Loves Me")
Text: Copyright © 1999 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. All rights reserved.
Copied from Gifts of Love: New Hymns for Today's Worship by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (Geneva Press, 2000).
Email: bcgillette@comcast.net     New Hymns: www.carolynshymns.com/

Hymn Use Permission: Gifts of Love: New Hymns for Today's Worship by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (Geneva Press, 2000) includes a permission note for those who own this book to use this hymn (along with the 44 other new hymns in the book) in their local church's worship services. People who do not own Gifts of Love are asked to contact Carolyn (bcgillette@comcast.net) for permission to use the hymn and to get a copy of the hymn formatted for worship bulletin use.

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