Your Love, O God

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Your love, O God, is broad like beach and meadow

Author: Anders Frostenson (1968); Translator: Fred Kaan (1972)
Tune: GUDS KÄRLEK
Published in 8 hymnals

Audio files: Recording

Piano/Organ
	TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Choral
	This Is My Song - Guitar part

Handbells
	Finlandia - Handbell Part

Representative Text

Source: Chalice Hymnal #71

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Author: Anders Frostenson

(no biographical information available about Anders Frostenson.) Go to person page >

Translator: Fred Kaan

Fred Kaan Hymn writer. His hymns include both original work and translations. He sought to address issues of peace and justice. He was born in Haarlem in the Netherlands in July 1929. He was baptised in St Bavo Cathedral but his family did not attend church regularly. He lived through the Nazi occupation, saw three of his grandparents die of starvation, and witnessed his parents deep involvement in the resistance movement. They took in a number of refugees. He became a pacifist and began attending church in his teens. Having become interested in British Congregationalism (later to become the United Reformed Church) through a friendship, he was attended Western College in Bristol. He was ordained in 1955 at the Windsor Road Congregation… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Your love, O God, is broad like beach and meadow
Title:	Your Love, O God
Author:	Anders Frostenson (1968)
Translator:	Fred Kaan (1972)
Meter:	11.10.11.10 with refrain
Place of Origin:	Sweden
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Your love, O God, is broad like beach and meadow
Copyright:	Trans. © 1974 Hope Publishing Company

Ephesians 2:13-22
(hymns)

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Tune

GUDS KÄRLEK

FINLANDIA

In 1899 Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (b. Hameenlina, Tavastehus, Finland, 1865; Jarvenpaa, near Helsingfors, Finland, 1957) wrote a musical score for six historical tableaux in a pageant that celebrated and supported the Finnish press against Russian oppression. In 1900 Sibelius revised the music…

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VICAR

GENEVAN 12 (or DONNE SECOURS, see 12) was the tune originally selected for the text for singing at the Evanston Assembly. That tune is set to the Harkness text in many hymnals. V. Earle Copes (PHH 302) composed VICAR in 1963 as a setting for Harkness's text for inclusion in the American Methodist Hy…

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