Let There Be Light, Lord God of Hosts

Verse 1

Let there be light, O God of hosts! Let there be wisdom on the earth! Let broad humanity have birth! Let there be deeds instead of boasts.

Verse 2

Within our passioned hearts instill the calm that endeth strain and strife. Make us your ministers of life. Drive out the urge to curse and kill.

Verse 3

Give us the peace of vision clear to see each other’s good, our own, to joy and suffer not alone: the love that casts aside all fear.

Verse 4

Let woe and waste of warfare cease, that useful labor yet may build its homes with love and laughter filled! God, give your wayward children peace!