TITLEGather Us InAUTHORMarty Haugen
COPYRIGHTLINEGIA PublicationsPARTNHere in this place new light is streaming,

Now is the darkness vanished away,PART]See in this space our fears and our dreamings,

Brought here to you in the light of this day.PARTIGather us in the lost and forsaken,

Gather us in the blind and the lame;PARTNCall to us now, and we shall awaken,

We shall arise at the sound of our name.PARTQWe are the young our lives are a myst'ry

We are the old who yearn for your face,PARTYWe have been sung throughout all of hist'ry,

Called to be light to the whole human race.PARTNGather us in the rich and the haughty,

Gather us in the proud and the strong;PARTMGive us a heart so meek and so lowly,

Give us the courage to enter the song.PARTTHere we will take the wine and the water,

Here we will take the bread of new birth,PARTXHere we shall call your sons and your daughters,

Call us anew to be salt for the earth.PARTOGive us to drink the wine of compassion,

Give us to eat the bread that is you;PARTWNourish us well, and teach us to fashion

Lives that are holy and hearts that are true.PARTRNot in the dark of buildings confining,

Not in some heaven, light years away, ButPARTRhere in this place the new light is shining,

Now is  the Kingdom, now is the day.PARTEGather us in and hold us forever,

Gather us in and make us your own;PARTKGather us in all peoples together,

Fire of love in our flesh and our bone.