"We All Love the Lord" is the song I sang in church yesterday. It was a spiritual joy to have the congregation joining in on the chorus. "Yes, we all love the Lord!"
I wrote the words during the Centennial of the Akron (Colorado) United Methodist Church. Coincidentally the Presbyterian church down the street was celebrating their centennial as well. My friend Linda Hayes, a member of that church, wrote the tune, and our churches both sang it. That was back in the day when we both had little children.
For those who want the lyrics, here they are:
We All Love the Lord
by Michele Parish-Pixler and Linda Hayes, copyright 1986.
We're farmers, we're housewives, we're implement dealers,
We're doctors, mechanics, preachers and teachers.
We work in the factory, we live on the farm
With conflicting hopes and differing dreams, but--
We all love the Lord,
We all love the Lord,
We all love the Lord:
We follow our Lord Jesus Christ.
We're some of us sinners and some of us sorry,
We're some of us striving for stars in our crown.
We're some of us hungry and some of us peaceful.
We sing when we're up and we pray when we're down, and--
We all love the Lord,
We all love the Lord,
We all love the Lord:
We follow our Lord Jesus Christ.
We try to be kind and we try to be loving,
We pray for each other, we share what we can
To help out our neighbors here in our own county
And those we don't know in faraway lands, 'cause
We all love the Lord,
We all love the Lord,
We all love the Lord:
We follow our Lord Jesus Christ.
And if Sunday morning you're visiting our town,
Come worship with us--or the church down the block.
The Lord's table is there too and so is the Bible.
We work close with them and it's not a far walk. Yes--
We all love the Lord,
We all love the Lord,
We all love the Lord:
We follow our Lord Jesus Christ.