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While our horizons hem us in
your vision shows a farther shore:
where holiness is not a dream
and Good News runs from door to door.

As risk aversion holds us back
your footsteps trace an urgent path:
to where your reckless grace rebuilds
the love that helps the broken laugh.

What is the bridge that takes us there?
What is the passage to that shore?
If there were easy paths to trace
then human hearts would know for sure.

Give us the wisdom to be fools,
to dare to dream and to declare
the paradox of God in Christ:
that death is life and all may share.

Copyright © 2008 GraceNotes Music

Written in response to September 11, 2001

This hymn, written to reflect some of the glories of Cornwall, was used for some years at the opening service of the annual Royal Cornwall Show.

The original tune was written by Cornish musician Len Olds.

Metre     8.8.8.8. (LM)             

I wrote this hymn for the Methodist Church Holiness & Risk conference at Swanwick. It can be sung to a number of tunes but Wilton was used at the conference.