Finish then thy new creation

One more clip from last Sunday: the piano improvisation from the middle service.

It is based on two of the hymns from the service, both of them by Charles Wesley:

Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heav'n, to earth come down,
fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation,
enter ev'ry trembling heart.

And the second:

Come away to the skies,
my beloved, arise
and rejoice in the day thou wast born;
on this festival day,
come exulting away,
and with singing to Zion return.

I think it turned out pretty well – better in its way than the Bach Toccata that I played at the evensong. The latter is of course much greater music, but was perhaps more than I should have attempted.

Still, we press on, strengthened by Hope that we will one day be completed, our songs no longer prone to failures of every sort.

Finish then thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be;
let us see thy great salvation
perfectly revealed in thee:
changed from glory into glory,
till in heav'n we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love, and praise.