Lavish Love, Abundant Beauty
melody
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Lavish love, abundant beauty,
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Gracious gifts for heart and hand,
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Life that fills the soul and senses -
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All burst forth at Your command.
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Lord, our Lord, Eternal Father,
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Great Creator, God and Friend,
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Boundless pow’r gave full expression
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To Your love which knows no end.
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Who I am that You should love me,
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Meet my ev’ry need from birth?
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Why invest Yourself so fully
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In a creature made of earth?
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In Your loving heart You planned me,
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Fashioned me with greatest care;
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Through my soul You breathed Your Spirit,
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Planted Your own image there.
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I am Yours, Eternal Father,
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All my body, mind and heart.
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Take and use me to Your glory.
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Form Yourself in ev’ry part.
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Lord, Your love brings joy and gladness
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Flowing forth within my soul.
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May my very breath and being
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Rise to You, their source and goal.
Words by: Peter Ellis
music: by Rowland Prichard 1830