We thank thee Lord, for waiting years,

Though every hope be touched with tears.

Though in the past lie broken dreams,

Yet in the future, now it seems.

As if a hand will point the way,

We thank thee Lord for love today.

For working lads, for hearts that pray,

And though it be a thorny road,

O'er which we trudge with heavy load.

Yet by the roadside we may find,

The handshake of a comrade kind.

We thank thee lord for beating rain,

Through which the sun shines down again,

We thank thee for the blinding heat

Of desert over which our feet,

Must go and though our eyes be wet,

And though our hearts be burdened yet.

We thank thee lord for Jesus Christ,

Who through Thy love was sacrificed.

Help us to know that he will share,

The heavy burden we may bear.

And as we labour here to pray, our

Lips may swiftly learn to say

"We thank thee Lord!" By Andrew Kornas

Stewart Stret, Halliwell

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