Monday, 7 October 2019

Hymn

Forth in your name, O Lord, I go
my daily labour to pursue;
you, Lord, alone I long to know
in all I think or speak or do.

The task your wisdom has assigned
here let me cheerfully fulfil;
in all my work your presence find
and prove your good and perfect will.

You I would set at my right hand
whose eyes my inmost secrets view;
and labour on at your command
and offer all my work to you.

Help me to bear your easy yoke
and every moment watch and pray;
and still to things eternal look
and hasten to that glorious day.

Gladly for you may I employ
all that your generous grace has given;
and run my earthly course with joy,
and closely walk with you to heaven.


This is the closing hymn at the first mass at the chapel of SBH to mark the start of Michaelmas term of the 2019 Academic Year. Deeply meaningful words that will help guide all of us, especially M, as she spends the next three years here.
During the Fr O, the chaplain, in his calm Queen's English voice, spoke of servant leadership and how everything we do has to be in service of the Lord. With such foundations, this is indeed a unique place for M to study Human Sciences. As it is, it is a course that marries the sciences with the humanities. And if she adds spirituality to it, it would truly be the Grand Unified Theory of Everything.




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