8/08/2009

Your Heart Today

By Manoling Fanciscio, SJ - Bukas Palad
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Where there is fear, I can allay
Where there is pain, I can heal
Where there are wounds, I can bind
And hunger, I can fill

Refrain:

Lord, grant me courage
Lord, grant me strength
Grant me compassion
That I may be your heart today

Where there is hate, I can confront
Where there are yokes, I can release
Where there are captives, I can free
And anger, I can appease

(Repeat Refrain)

Bridge:

When comes the day I dread
To see a broken world
Compel me from my cell grown cold
That your people I may behold

Where there is fear, I can allay
Where there is pain, I can heal
Where there are wounds, I can bind
And hunger, I can fill

(Repeat Refrain)

And when I’ve done, all that I could
Yet there are hearts, I cannot move
Lord, give me hope
That I may be your heart today

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Dulce sang this song at the funeral rites of the former president Corazon Aquino at Manila Cathedral, August 5, 2009.