We Come to Your Feast

We place upon your table A gleaming cloth of white The weaving of our stories The fabric of our lives The dreams of those before us The ancient hopeful cries The promise of our future Our needing and our nurture Lie here before our eyes We come to your feast We come to your feast The young and the old The frightened, the bold The greatest and the least We come to your feast We come to your feast With the fruit of our lands And the work of our hands We come to your feast We place upon your table A humble loaf of bread The gift of field and hillside The grain by which we're fed We come to taste the presence Of him on whom we feed To strengthen and connect us To challenge and correct us To love in word and deed We come to your feast We come to your feast The young and the old The frightened, the bold The greatest and the least We come to your feast We come to your feast With the fruit of our lands And the work of our hands We come to your feast We place upon your table A simple cup of wine The fruit of human labour The gift of sun and vine We come taste the presence Of him we claim as Lord His dying and his living His leading and his giving His love in cup out poured We come to your feast We come to your feast The young and the old The frightened, the bold The greatest and the least We come to your feast We come to your feast With the fruit of our lands And the work of our hands We come to your feast We gather 'round your table We pause within our quest We stand beside our neighbours We name the stranger guest The feast is spread before us You bid us come and dine In blessing, we'll uncover In sharing, we'll discover Your substance and your sign We come to your feast (we come to your feast) We come to your feast (we come to your feast) The young and the old The frightened, the bold The greatest and the least We come to your feast (we come to your feast) We come to your feast (we come to your feast) With the fruit of our lands And the work of our hands We come to your feast We come to your feast (we come to your feast) We come to your feast (we come to your feast) The young and the old The frightened, the bold The greatest and the least We come to your feast (we come to your feast) We come to your feast (we come to your feast) With the fruit of our lands And the work of our hands We come to your feast