Bonus Poem: A Hymn for Online/at home Worship

This hymn is to be sung to Eternal Father, Strong to Save (The Navy Hymn). I borrowed a few words from William Whiting's words to that hymn, but other than that it's mine, and now yours to use freely.

Eternal Lord, Who Calmed the Waves

 MELITA 8.8.8.8.8.8

Scott L. Barton, 2020              John Bacchus Dykes, 1861

Eternal Lord, who calmed the waves,

We look to you this day to save;

Across the world, we live in fear

And yearn for when we might be clear

Of danger none with eyes can see,

That now has brought us to our knees.

To Lazarus, “Come out!” you called,

To those who cried, you’d not withhold 

A word to banish evil’s power—

So thus we cry to you this hour

To heal a world so ill at ease

From what has brought us to our knees.

O Lord, who lives to break down walls,

By meeting not, we’re all appalled,

And yearn for when, no longer bound,

Our friends and neighbors we’ll surround

With handshakes, hugs, again at ease,

When you will strengthen feeble knees.

O Trinity of love and power, 

All healers guard in danger’s hour;

Protect them as they treat and care

For all your people, here and there,

Thus praises e’er will rise to thee

From all who pray on bended knee.