We give them back to you, O Lord,
who first gave them to us;
and as you did not lose them in giving,
so we do not lose them in the return.
Not as the world gives do you give,
O Lover of souls,
For what is yours is ours also,
if we belong to you.
Life is unending
because love is undying,
and the boundaries of this life are but an horizon,
and an horizon is but the limit of our vision.
Lift us up, strong Son of God,
that we may see further,
Strengthen our faith
that we may see beyond the horizon.
And while you prepare a place for us,
as you have promised,
prepare us also for that happy place;
that where you are we may be also,
with those we have loved, forever.
Written many years ago by an English Dominican friar, Bede Jarrett, op.
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