Holy Darkness

Dan Schutte

Refrain:
Holy darkness, blessed night,
heaven's answer hidden from our sight.
As we await you, O God of silence,
we embrace your holy night.

I have tried you in fires of affliction;
I have taught your soul to grieve.
In the barren soil of your loneliness,
there I will plant my seed.

I have taught you the price of compassion;
you have stood before the grave.
Though my love can seem like a raging storm,
this is the love that saves.

Were you there when I raised up the mountains?
Can you guide the morning star?
Does the hawk take flight when you give command?
Why do you doubt my pow'r?

In your deepest hour of darkness,
I will give you wealth untold.
When the silence stills your spirit,
will my riches fill your soul.

As the watchman waits for morning,
and the bride awaits her groom,
so we wait to hear Your footsteps
as we rest beneath your moon.

Here in this Place

David Haas

Ref:
Are not our hearts burning within us?
Are not our lives shared as one bread?
Here in our hands, here in this place,
Jesus our hope, life from the dead.

In the breaking of the bread,
May we know the Lord.
We were lost and now are found.
Home again with God.

You are food for all our hunger,
You are all we need.
You are our promise and our hope,
Life for the world.

As this bread is broken,
As this cup is shared,
We give our lives, broke and outpoured,
We will serve the Lord.