Over Black Coffee and Gunpowder Tea
served with
Psalm 103:12-King James Version
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
Author: Frederick William Faber (1862)
1 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,
like the wideness of the sea.
There’s a kindness in God’s justice,
which is more than liberty.
2 There is welcome for the sinner,
and more graces for the good.
There is mercy with the Savior,
there is healing in his blood.
3 But we make God’s love too narrow
by false limits of our own,
and we magnify its strictness
with a zeal God will not own.
4 For the love of God is broader
than the measures of the mind,
and the heart of the Eternal
is most wonderfully kind.
5 If our love were but more simple,
we should rest upon God’s word,
and our lives would be illumined
by the presence of our Lord.
Source: Voices Together #156