![]() ![]() Like the Risen Jesus announcing “I will be with you always.” God will not let you be torn away from reach of God’s forgiveness and the touch of God’s comfort and the mark of life in God’s name. Like the Apostle Paul who proclaims that nothing can separate us from the love of God made known in Christ Jesus. Like the psalmist who affirms that there is nowhere to go to flee God’s presence. No it’s more like this: your feet have been firmly planted in the foundation of God’s grace and mercy and care. Not letting your foot be moved it’s not some guarantee of a perfect graceful “knees- never- stained runway kind of walk in life. In life or in faith, small ways and big ways, stumbling comes with the territory. It’s not that you won’t slip or stumble along the way. God is going to help you stay the course, follow the path, keep pressing on. The Lord will not let your foot be moved. My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. The Everlasting God of the universe shall take me from the womb to the grave and to an everlasting rest nestled into God’s light, God’s heart, God’s being. The Great God Almighty who knows me by name, counts the hairs on my head, and is there for every breath I take. The Creator whose presence shall carry me all of my days. Looking to the Holy One who created the heavens and the earth. When things in the world seem out of control, when another tragedy comes near or far, when it’s just another day’s news and I sort of feel like shouting or shaking a fist or heaving the heaviest of sight, I lift my eyes. Or when my feelings are hurt, or I know I’ve hurt someone else’s. Sometimes I lift my eyes in exasperation, frustration, anger. I lift my eyes when I’m really worried about someone I love, when I’m not sure my heart has room for one more burden, when I find myself listening to a hurting friend, when weariness gets the best of me. I lift my eyes when I’m struggling, feeling so unsure, anxious, hoping for a better day. I lift my eyes in praise and thanksgiving. ![]() My help, my strength, my peace, it comes from the God who created me, who gave me life, who fills that God-shaped vacuum deep within that can’t be filled by anything else, anyone else. I lift my eyes in gratitude and in wonder. I lift my eyes to sing a song of praise and to pray and to listen to something beautiful and to remember good things. The help comes from the God who made all that. ![]() The help comes doesn’t come from the mountains or the blue sky or the stars at night or from the sunset. ![]() It was also the school hymn for Kingston High School, Kingston upon Hull.I lift mine eyes to the hills-from whence does my help come? I lift my eyes to the mountains, to the stunning blue sky, to the beautiful stars at night, to an orange fall sunset. It was also the school hymn for Stoke Damerel High School for Girls in Plymouth (1926 - 1986 closure). It was also the school song of Thoresby High School for Girls in the centre of Leeds until this school combined to become co-ed with Central Grammar School for Boys in 1972. It is also the school hymn of Melbourne's Haileybury College, Benenden School, Hilton College, Cranbrook, County Grammar School for Boys, Woking, Surrey and Queen Mary's High School for Girls, Walsall and Mayfield Preparatory School, also part of the Queen Mary's foundation. The hymn became the school song of Walter Greatorex's old school, Derby (a tradition continued by Derby Grammar School), Haileybury and Imperial Service College, Hertford, and also of Poundswick Grammar School, Wythenshawe, Manchester. Woodlands is the name of a house at the school. In the Church of England, Lift up your hearts! is usually sung to Woodlands, a musical setting composed by Walter Greatorex for Gresham's School (where he was Director of Music) in 1916. The words echo the English translation of the Sursum corda, a part of the communion liturgy in Christian churches. Lift up your hearts! is an English hymn written in 1881 by the Anglican academic and clergyman H. Lift up your hearts! as sung by angels in a stained glass window designed by An Túr Gloine artists in 1909 ![]()
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