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Wind who makes all winds blow, gusts that bends the sapling low,
Gales that heave the sea in waves, stirrings in the mind's deep caves:
Aim your breath with steady power on your church, this day,
this hour.
Raise, re-new the life we've lost, Spirit God of Pentecost.
Fire who fuels all fires burn, suns around which planets turn,
Beacons marking reefs and shoals, shining truth to guide our souls:
Come to us as once you came; burst in tongues of sacred flame!
Light and Power, Might and Strength, fill your church, its breadth and length.
Holy Spirit, wind and flame, move with-in our mortal frame;
Make our hearts an altar pyre; kindle them with your own fire.
Breath and blow upon that blaze till our lives, our deeds, and ways
Speak that tongue which every land by your grace shall understand.
Words: Thomas Troeger
United Methodist Hymnal page # 538
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