詩歌分享：The Prayer I Make

很優美的曲調，有點中國歌曲的味道？由某衛理公會的詩班演唱，歌詞：



The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed,
if you the Spirit give by which I pray.
My unassisted heart is barren clay
which of its native self can nothing feed.
我作的禱告若是藉著你的靈就很美，我的心好像貧瘠的土壤，本身沒有任何其它東西能飽足。

Of good and pious works you are the seed
which quickens where you said it may;
Unless you show us then your own true way,
no man can find it! Father, you mast lead!
一切的美善敬虔工作都是你撒種，你發話就帶來生命力，若非你指示真道，無人能找到！天父你一定要帶領！

Do you then breathe those thoughts into my mind,
by which such virtue may in me be bred
that in your holy footsteps I may tread;
The fetters of my tongue do you unbind,
that I may have the power to sing of you.
And sound, and sound your praises ever lastingly.
請以你的思想啟迪我，好在我裡面培育美德，讓我可以跟隨你腳步；
請釋放我的口舌，讓我有能力歌唱你，永永遠遠讚美你。