Misc Praise Songs – How Can You Name A Love (Guitar)

     C      G     C
How can we name a love

      G/B   C         G
that wakens heart and mind,

   C       C/E    G       Am
indwelling all we know or think

    C    G        C
or do or seek or find?

    C      G     Am
Within our daily world,

    F          C
in every human face,

        C     C/E       G      Am
Love's echoes sound and God is found,

     C/G    G      C
hid in the commonplace.

    C  G       C
If we awoke to life

      G/B     C      G
Built on a rock of care

     C        C/E      G        Am
that asked no great reward but firm,

   C        G      C
assured,was simply there,

   C         G         Am
we can, with parents' names,

    F                C
describe, and thus adore,

      C    C/E       G      Am
love unconfined, a Father kind,

   C/G   G           C
a Mother strong and sure.

     C      G       C
When people share a task,

    G/B           C       G
and strength and skills unite

   C        C/E     G      Am
in projects old or new, to make

    C       G        C
or do with shared delight,

    C           G        Am
our Friend and Partner's will

   F            C
is better understood,

      C         C/E       G         Am
that all should share, create, and care,

    C/G         G      C
and know that life is good.

    C   G        C
So in a hundred names,

     G/B     C      G
each day we all can meet

  C          C/E        G        Am
a presence, sensed and shown at work,

   C         G      C
at home, or in the street.

     C     G      Am
Yet every name we see

        F            C
shines in a brighter sun:

    C       C/E     G         Am
In Christ alone is Love full grown

     C/G      G     C
and life and hope begun.