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SDAH 550
Every flow’r that grows, Every brook that flows,
Tell of beauty God has giv’n for me:
Throughout my life may beauty be
Deep within a heart from sin set free.
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Introductions for Sabbath School Song Service (based on specific lesson quarterlies):
This is one of six hymns in SDAH that can be sung as a canon, or round (see Index of Canons, SDAH, p. 808). It is crafted in a most charming way to tell about how nature reflects God’s love. Most important, it is a prayer that our thoughts and actions might reflect our unison with Christ the Creator.
Fern Lazicki was born May 4, 1916, in Detroit. She lived for 12 years in upper Michigan before her Finnish-Polish family settled in southern California. Her hymn texts have been written mostly for her brother, composer Dale Wood. Together they collaborated to create “Every Flower That Grows” as a choral anthem for children. Titled “A Hymn of Youth,” the anthem was published by Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, in 1967. Mrs. Lazicki is the mother of six children, four of whom are now serving in full-time Christian ministry. Her son Stephen, also an author of many anthem texts, is a Lutheran missionary in Cameroon, West Africa. At present, Fern assists her husband, Ted, in writing children’s stories and plays for religious publications.
For LAUREL and Dale Wood (1934- ) see SDAH 42. Wood also wrote EDEN CHURCH, SDAH 235.
📖 Reference: Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal by Wayne Hooper and Edward E. White. Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1988.
Text
1
Every flow’r that grows, Every brook that flows,
Tell of beauty God has giv’n for me:
Throughout my life may beauty be
Deep within a heart from sin set free.
2
Gracious Lord above, Looking down in love,
Guide my thoughts, my life, in my walk with Thee,
That day by day the world may see
Christ, the Lord and Savior, lives in me.
3
All my earthly days, I shall sing and praise
God the Father, Spirit, and Christ with the Son.
Grant faith when life on earth is done,
I shall sing with those whose rest is won.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(b) Eph 3:17 (c) Ps 52:9
Author
Fern Lazicki (1916-)
Year Published
1966
Performance Suggestions
Unison
*When sung as a canon, the second part enters at the first beat of the second measure, where the melody is also in the tenor.
Copyright
Music copyright 1966 by Lutheran Church Press, Philadelphia, and Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis. Used by permission.
Hymn Tune
LAUREL
Metrical Number
Irregular
Composer
Dale Wood (1934-)
