Dear Friends,

Welcome to a new ‘mini-series’ in which, at Ernesto’s invitation, I will be offering ‘Music to End the Day’ on Sunday evenings.

We begin with a beautiful chorale prelude by J.S. Bach based on the Lutheran hymn ‘Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier’, better known in England as ‘Dearest Jesu, we are here, at thy call thy presence owning’. To follow this we hear one of Graham Kendrick’s  most deeply personal and heartfelt songs, ‘Such love, pure as the whitest snow’.

Bach Chorale prelude: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier

“Dearest Jesus, we are here, at they call, thy presence owning” BWV 731 composed by J S Bach 1714.

Hymn: Such love, pure as the whitest snow

Words based on Colossians 2:13-14; 1 John 3:1.
Composed by Graham Kendrick 1988, arr Adrian Boynton

As we move towards the end of the day, let us pray, using words of Robert Louis Stevenson:

O Lord, go with each of us to rest; if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching;
and when the day returns, return to us, our sun and comforter,
and call us up with morning faces and with morning hearts;
and if the day be marked for sorrow, make us strong to endure it.

Amen

Goodnight, everyone.

Adrian Boynton