When I Look Around Me

Words by Lesley Ellison

When I look around me, Lord, I find you everywhere,
Silently repaying love with love beyond compare.
In my neighbours one by one yourself concealed I see:
"What you do unto the least I take as done for me."

When I look around me, Lord, I find you everywhere
Silently repaying love with love beyond compare.
Meeting here in mutual love your presence we can share:
"Meet together in my name and I am always there."

When I look around me, Lord, I find you everywhere
Silently repaying love with love beyond compare.
Sharing in this bread and wine, our life in you is sure(*):
"Offer this in memory of me for evermore."

When I look around me, Lord, I find you everywhere
Silently repaying love with love beyond compare.
Enter deeply in my soul until my old self dies;
Then your love will always shine in me before men's eyes.

(*) Alternative words: your presence we adore:

This was one of the last hymns set to music by the well-known hymn-writer
Fr Gerard Beaumont, and was the result of a hymn competition.
Despite efforts, it has not proved possible to contact the lyricist,
whose rights are nevertheless protected.