Good morning from a sunny SCC :-)

Here is today's Bible reading:

And hymn 643, Be thou my vision

1. Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,

naught be all else to me, save that thou art;

thou my best thought in the day and the night,

waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

2. Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word,

I ever with thee, and thou with me, Lord;

thou my great Father, and I thy true heir;

thou in me dwelling, and I in thy care.

3. Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight;

be thou my armour, and be thou my might;

thou my soul's shelter, and thou my high tower:

raise thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

4. Riches I heed not, nor vain empty praise:

thou mine inheritance through all my days;

thou and thou only the first in my heart;

High King of heaven, my treasure thou art!

5. High King of heaven, when the battle is done,

grant heaven’s joy to me, O bright heaven’s sun,

Christ of my own heart, whatever befall,

still be my vision, O Ruler of all.

Words: Ancient Irish hymn;

trans. Mary Byrne, 1905, and versified by Eleanor Hull, 1912 altd