As We Reach Out In Love
I wrote this hymn as a submission for new music for the LDS church in 2019. The church has a long tradition of asking members to fast for 24 hours, or two meals, once per month, and to give the money they might have used for their food as a “fast offering” to help those who are poor or needy. Isaiah outlines these principles nicely in Isaiah chapter 58, upon which I base this hymn. Isaiah’s promises are beautiful, and motivate me to be more charitable. I also used text from Matthew 25 (the parable of the sheep and the goats), and text from two talks on this subject (Jeffrey Holland and Henry Eyring) as I wrote the lyrics.
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