Occasional Impressions

Themes and variations

You shall be a blessing

You shall be a blessing for all my people;
you shall be a blessing for all my world.
For I formed it, I shaped it, I love it:
gave my life to save it.
You shall be a blessing.

You shall be an ensign for all my people;
you shall bear an emblem that shows the world
that I died to forgive all who follow
in my footsteps praying,
calling me their Saviour.

You shall be a beacon before my people,
burning with the bright flame that lights the world
with the fire of my love and the promise
I shall never leave you,
always be your Saviour.

You shall be a blessing for all my people;
you shall be a blessing for all my world.
For I formed it, I shaped it, I love it:
gave my life to save it.
You shall be my blessing.

You shall be my blessing.
John-David Yule

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