Our Daily Bread

Give us our dai­ly bread

O God

the bread of strength!

For we have learned to know

How weak we are at length.

As child­ren we are weak

As child­ren must be fed—

Give us Thy grace

O Lord

To be our dai­ly bread.

Give us our dai­ly bread—

The bit­ter bread of grief.

We sought earth’s pois­oned feasts

For plea­sure and re­lief;

We sought her dead­ly fruits

But now

O God

in­stead

We ask Thy heal­ing grief

To be our dai­ly bread.

Give us our dai­ly bread

To cheer our faint­ing soul;

The feast of com­fort

Lord

And peace

to make us whole:

For we are sick of tears

The use­less tears we shed;

Now give us com­fort

Lord

To be our dai­ly bread.

Give us our dai­ly bread

The bread of an­gels

Lord

By us

so ma­ny times

Broken

be­trayed

ad­ored:

His bo­dy and His blood—

The feast that Je­sus spread:

Give Him—our life

our all—

To be our dai­ly bread!