O Christ the Same

1   Christ the same, through all our story’s pages--
    our loves and hopes, our failures and our fears;
    eternal Lord, the king of all the ages,
    unchanging still amid the passing years:
    O living Word, the source of all creation,
    who spread the skies and set the stars ablaze;
    O Christ the same, who wrought our whole salvation,
    we bring our thanks for all our yesterdays.


2  O Christ the same, the friend of sinners, sharing
    our inmost thoughts, the secrets none can hide;
    still as of old upon your body bearing
    the marks of love in triumph glorified.
    O Son of Man, who stooped for us from heaven--
    O Prince of life, in all your saving power;
    O Christ the same, to whom our hearts are given:
    we bring our thanks for this the present hour.


3  O Christ the same, secure within whose keeping
    our lives and loves, our days and years remain;
    our work and rest, our waking and our sleeping,
    our calm and storm, our pleasure and our pain:
    O Lord of love, for all our joys and sorrows,
    for all our hopes when earth shall fade and flee;
    O Christ the same, beyond our brief tomorrows,
    we bring our thanks for all that is to be.