Glad to be alive,
to know the God of love.
Glad to join our joyful praise
with all the saints above.


God gives us sense of touch and taste,
of sound and smell and sight.
From these come all we know and feel.
We pray to use them right.

Glad to be alive...

Our mind, our reason, loving Lord,
is held in trust for you.
May all our thought be sanctified,
to govern all we do.

Glad to be alive...

Our hearts are filled with hopes and fears
that work for good or ill.
Though we go wrong, the cross Christ bore
shows how God loves us still.

Glad to be alive...

Almighty God, you love each soul
as if there were but one.
Help us respond with all our strength,
on earth your will be done

Glad to be alive...

John Miller. b. 1924

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