I got back on Wednesday and have had a lovely few days so far, staying with and catching up with friends from uni. We ate at the legendary all you can eat chinese buffet, played singstar, sorted out recycling, had a house reunion in lovely burlingtons, ate toast, played articulate and logo, had communion on maundy thursday, ate easter eggs, shopped in boots, had a cup of tea with a stranger, flyered for holiday club, spent 'an hour at the cross', and many other hours just chatting to my lovely lovely friends.
It's Good Friday today and there have been several things going on at All Saints, we didn't sing this song but I saw it in the book and it's words seem pretty apt for how I was/am feeling, the tune is the same as 'The Sands of Time are Sinking":
O teach me what it meaneth, That cross uplifted high,
With One, the Man of Sorrows, Condemned to bleed and die!
O teach me what it cost Thee To make a sinner whole;
And teach me, Saviour, teach me The value of a soul!
O teach me what it meaneth, That sacred crimson tide,
The blood and water flowing From Thine own wounded side.
Teach me that if none other Had sinned, but I alone,
Yet still Thy blood, Lord Jesus, Thine only, must atone.
O teach me what it meaneth, Thy love beyond compare,
The love that reacheth deeper Than depths of self-despair!
Yes, teach me, till there gloweth In this poor heart of mine
Some feeble, pale reflection Of that pure love of Thine.
O teach me what it meaneth, For I am full of sin,
And grace alone can reach me, And love alone can win.
O teach me, for I need Thee, I have no help beside—
The chief of all the sinners For whom the Saviour died?
O Infinite Redeemer! I bring no other plea;
Because Thou dost invite me I cast myself on Thee.
Because Thou dost accept me I love and I adore;
Because Thy love constraineth, I'll praise Thee ever more!
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