This Carey Landry song is very difficult to do slowly and reverently because there is so little to it and that may be why none of our local liturgy teams has suggested it for years.
This is what it is meant to sound like.
You can buy the sheet music at OCP here.
My backing is at 96 bpm.
Refrain
Abba Abba Father.
You are the potter; we are the clay, the work of Your hands.Verse 1
Mold us, mold us and fashion us
Into the image of Jesus Your Son,
Of Jesus Your SonRefrain
Verse 2
Father, may we be one in You.
May we be one in You as He is in You
And You are in Him.Refrain
Verse 3 (key change)
Glory, glory and praise to you.
Glory and praise to You forever, amen, forever, amen.Refrain
© NALR 1977,1978.
I made a terrible MIDI file of this years ago and recently I thought I could fix it by putting it through Pro Tools: it is still a fail backing!
I have seen this song in form of a. Hymnal sheet music. Just one page. Do you have it ?
G’Day Joyce.
No I don’t have it, but I just refer people to where they can legally purchase sheet music.
cheers
Geoff
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am looking for a scripture reference…
Scripture references for this song are:
Mark 14:36
And He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will.”
Romans 8:15
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
Galatians 4:6
And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.
Jeremiah 18, The Potter and the Clay
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:
2 “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.”
3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel.
4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.
5 ¶ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:
6 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?” says the LORD. “Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!
7 “The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it,
8 “if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.
9 “And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,
10 “if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.
11 ¶ “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.” ’ ”