About Ancient Ghosts and Green Heart Songs

Ancient Ghosts and Green Heart Songs is a personal anthology of poems, songs, hymns, and music begun around 1995 as a kind of journal. The theme is very simple--celebration of my family, my grandparents and parents, my brothers, my husband and daughter, and an expression of gratitude to God for them, and for my Christian Faith and Irish heritage. Some are deeply sad while others are joyful. Some are prayers and others laments, or even protest against abuse. They are all born of love, of pain, of grief, and of profound Faith. The anthology will be complete when I return home...

Ancient Ghosts...some songs

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It's Just Grand! (A Celtic Psalm)

IT'S JUST GRAND
(A Celtic Psalm)

Oh Lord, You have searched me and know me
You know when I sit and I stand
I know that Your love is here for me,
And Lord, I think it's just grand!

Behind me, before me, beneath and above me
You're with me to lend me a hand,
Uplift and restore me and always You love me
And Lord, I think it's just grand!

The blue sky above me, the Earth at my feet,
Mountains and rivers, the sea and the sand,
Water to quench me, the food that I eat,
Ah Lord, I think it's just grand!

With the creatures of heaven and earth I commune
In the air or the sea, or on land,
You're there in the sun and the stars and the moon,
And Lord, I think it's just grand!

Yet the greatest of all gifts that You've given me,
as far as I can understand,
Is Christ come to save me, to tell me You love me,
And Lord, I think it's just grand!



Copyright 1999, Rev. Cait Finnegan, OMC


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