When Human Voices Cannot Sing

Verse 1

When human voices cannot sing and human hearts are breaking, we bring our grief to you, O God, who knows our inner aching.

Verse 2

Set free our spirits from all fear — the cloud of dark unknowing, and let the light, the Christ-light show the pathway of our going.

Verse 3

Make real for us your holding love, the love which is your meaning, the power to move the stone of death, the hope of Easter morning.

Verse 4

And let the one we love now go where we, in faith, shall follow, to travel in the Spirit's peace, to make an end to sorrow.