Trinity 3

There's a wideness in God's mercy

like the wideness of the sea;

there's a kindness in his justice

which is more than liberty.

There is no place where earth's sorrows

are more felt than up in heaven;

there is no place where earth's failings

have such kindly judgement given.

For the love of God is broader

than the measure of our mind

and the heart of the Eternal

is most wonderfully kind.

But we make his love too narrow

by false limits of our own;

and we magnify his strictness

with a zeal he would not own.

There is plentiful redemption

in the blood that has been shed;

there is joy for all the members

in the sorrows of the Head.

There is grace enough for thousands

of new worlds as great as this;

there is room for fresh creations

in that upper home of bliss

If our love were but more simple

we should take him at his word;

and our lives would be all gladness

in the joy of Christ our Lord.