There are many gifts in God’s great creation All part of His great economy of the order of things The gift of breath The gift of song and of music The gift of life, of image, of love The gift of all things The gift of even --dare I say it-- death He gifted all things that are
All is gifted unto us All is given by the Triune God In all gifted, there was still incompleteness There was nothing to respond to God So constructed into the image of God Comes a gift better than any gift before given With the breath of God flowing to our lungs Wearing a crown of the honor and glory of God
This gift, these people- Us He says to explore He says to see the world that we have been gifted To unwrap the gifts given To gift our gifts to the world that we are exploring But there was this problem, a tree It was not a gift, in fact it was forbidden Yet still, we unwrapped it, we took that which was not ours to take
We were overcome by death Overcome by udder sadness Overcome by sickness, and hurt By this torturous, terrible thing This terrible stolen anti-gift And for it we paid a hefty price We lost all we were We lost all we were meant to be
No longer did we fulfill our meaning Where we were to be gift givers Where we were to be life to the world Where we were to bless all things We took that which was not offered We broke our relationship with God Not only did we suffer But all creation suffered with and due to
Then came a new gift A gift to restore A gift to be freely taken Yet a gift of great responsibility This gift would set free But also bind This was a gift of all gifts This was a gift to end all gifts
God Himself became man Offering Himself unto death So that all things could be made new So all that was sad would become untrue Now, as we were once to be We could, ourselves, be gifts to the world Blessing the world Giving life to a lifeless
Our gifts were joined with Christ With this gift, we would become like the gift we were More like it than ever before For Christ makes us more human than we've ever been Where we would offer the world to The Father And for the life of all things Our priesthood would be restored All things would be restored All things would be made new All sad things would come untrue The world would be restored