A great hope found in greater love

I Celebrate the Church by Ann Weems, revised

I celebrate the church of Jesus Christ, where two or three or
thousands can gather together in the Lord's name, and touch
this world with the amazing good news that God is real and
that through Christ his love reaches out to all people.

I hear God's voice in the vision of men and women who call us to
a better way, a higher hope. For God works miracles in common
clay pots, Changing caterpillars to butterflies and water to wine,
Changing seeds to oak trees and night to day,
Changing winter to spring time,
Changing lives from ordinary to abundant.

We as God's celebrants move through this world together
listening for God's music, responding to God's word,
Praising God with clapping hands and moving feet,
Praising God with justice and mercy and humility,
Praising God with changed lives.