Choral Music

Offertory   Who Is the One We Love the Most  Carl Schalk
Summer Choir

Who is the one
we love the most,
the one who has
our total trust?
Something or someone
is our God,
who will is
willingly obeyed,
to whom we give
the years we live:
let that be you,
our God, our Lord!

Count every heartbeat,
every breath,
trace every step
from birth to death,
track every second
to its source,
each drop of blood,
each blade of grass,
the rising sun,
and every one:
let that be you,
our God, our Lord!

Preserve us from
all other gods,
all damned, deceitful,
loveless frauds;
compare them
ruthlessly to you,
the only One,
eternal true
Creator of all
life and love:
You are that One,
our God, our Lord!

A love no other
god has shown,
your Son upon
a cross makes known.
How shall we
worship such a God
with more than words
and passing nod,
if not with whole heart,
mind and soul,
like yours for us,
our God, our Lord?!

--Jaroslav J. Vajda