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The Yes of the Heart
Publication Date: 1993 Publisher: Hope Publishing Company Publication Place: Carol Stream, IL Editors: Rusty Edwards
The Yes of the Heart
Behold, a woman from the city
Author: Gracia Grindal Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: TEARS
Behold, a woman from the city
Praise God for you, my Brother Sun
Author: St. Francis of Assisi; Rusty Edwards Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1. Praise God for you, my Brother Sun
you are the gift of days —
A touch of God each time I feel
the warmth within your rays.
A touch of God each time I feel
the warmth within your rays.
2. Praise God for you, my Sister Moon
and all my Sister Stars.
From your clear light all beauty shines:
Reflected grace is ours.
From your clear light all beauty shines:
Reflected grace is ours.
3. Praise God for you, my Brother Wind
for storm and breeze and cloud.
Lifegiving is the Breath of God
that blows away death's shroud.
Lifegiving is the Breath of God
that blows away death's shroud.
4. My Water Sister, hear this song
above your gentle flow.
You do not seem to realize
the love of God you show!
You do not seem to realize
the love of God you show!
5. Praise God for you, my Brother Fire.
You burn away the night.
Through heat and flame you prove your strength
and bring my soul delight.
Through heat and flame you prove your strength
and bring my soul delight.
6. Praise God for you, Dear Mother Earth
sustaining globe and friend.
All Eden's fragrance stems from you
as God's own sweet Amen.
All Eden's fragrance stems from you
as God's own sweet Amen.
Used With Tune: COREA
Praise God for you, my Brother Sun
Come, little children, to the silent manger
Author: Herbert Brokering Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: HOWARD
Come, little children, to the silent manger
As the moon is to the sun
Author: Rusty Edwards Hymnal: YotH1993 #1 (1993) Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Languages: English Tune Title: BORROWED LIGHT
As the moon is to the sun
Behold, a woman from the city
Author: Gracia Grindal Hymnal: YotH1993 #2 (1993) Languages: English Tune Title: TEARS
Behold, a woman from the city
Praise God for you, my Brother Sun
Author: St. Francis of Assisi; Rusty Edwards Hymnal: YotH1993 #3 (1993) Lyrics: 1. Praise God for you, my Brother Sun
you are the gift of days —
A touch of God each time I feel
the warmth within your rays.
A touch of God each time I feel
the warmth within your rays.
2. Praise God for you, my Sister Moon
and all my Sister Stars.
From your clear light all beauty shines:
Reflected grace is ours.
From your clear light all beauty shines:
Reflected grace is ours.
3. Praise God for you, my Brother Wind
for storm and breeze and cloud.
Lifegiving is the Breath of God
that blows away death's shroud.
Lifegiving is the Breath of God
that blows away death's shroud.
4. My Water Sister, hear this song
above your gentle flow.
You do not seem to realize
the love of God you show!
You do not seem to realize
the love of God you show!
5. Praise God for you, my Brother Fire.
You burn away the night.
Through heat and flame you prove your strength
and bring my soul delight.
Through heat and flame you prove your strength
and bring my soul delight.
6. Praise God for you, Dear Mother Earth
sustaining globe and friend.
All Eden's fragrance stems from you
as God's own sweet Amen.
All Eden's fragrance stems from you
as God's own sweet Amen.
Languages: English Tune Title: COREA
Praise God for you, my Brother Sun
Carl P. Daw Jr.
b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Hymnal Number: 9 Author (stanzas 3 and 4) of "How lovely is thy dwelling place" in The Yes of the Heart Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Emily Brink
Carl P. Daw Jr.
Herbert Brokering
1926 - 2009 Hymnal Number: 4 Author of "Come, little children, to the silent manger" in The Yes of the Heart Herbert F. Brokering (b. Beatrice, Nebraska, May 21, 1926; d. Bloomington, Minnesota, November 7, 2009) was a Lutheran pastor with German roots, an author of more than forty books, and a poet and hymn writer known especially for two hymn texts, “Earth and All Stars” and “Alleluia! Christ Is Risen,” both set to the same tune. He was born in Nebraska, the son of a German Lutheran pastor; earned degrees from Wartburg College in Iowa, University of Iowa, and Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, OH, and pursued graduate study in Germany at the University of Kiel and the University of Erlangen. He served as a pastor of three Lutheran congregations, in Pennsylvania, New York, and Texas; taught at the Navy Chaplain’s Career School in Newport, Rhode Island, Luther Seminary and Trinity Seminary, and was also active in the Lutheran World Federation services and the World Council of Churches.
Emily Brink
Herbert Brokering
Timothy Dudley-Smith
b. 1926 Hymnal Number: 7 Author of "Give thanks to God on high" in The Yes of the Heart Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973).
Bert Polman
Timothy Dudley-Smith
