O Blessed Spring HD

By: Susan Palo Cherwien
Performed: Concordia Publishing House
Album: Hymns for All Saints: Lent, Easter, Pentecost
℗ 2006 Concordia Publishing House

Faith We Sing (2076)

1. O blessed spring, where Word and sign
embrace us into Christ the Vine:
here Christ enjoins each one to be

2. Through summer heat and youthful years,
uncertain faith, rebellious tears,
sustained by Christ's infusing rain,
the boughs will shout for joy again.

3. When autumn cools and youth is cold,
when limbs their heavy harvest hold,
then through us warm, the Christ will move
with gifts of beauty, wisdom, love.

4. As winter comes, as winters must,
we breathe our last, return to dust;
still held in Christ, our souls take wing
and trust the promise of the spring.

5. Christ, holy Vine, Christ, living Tree,
be praised for this blest mystery:
that Word and water thus revive.
and join us to your Tree of Life.