What Is This Place?
ENGLISH / HUUB OOSTERHUIS / TRADITIONAL DUTCH HYMN
Huub Oosterhuis – What Is This Place?
Traditional Dutch Hymn – What Is This Place?
Lyrics
Verse 1 What is this place where we are meeting? Only a house, the earth its floor, walls and a roof sheltering people, windows for light, an open door. Yet it becomes a body that lives when we are gathered here, and know our God is near. Verse 2 Words from afar, stars that are falling, sparks that are sown in us like seed. Names for our God, dreams, signs, and wonders sent from the past are what we need. We in this place remember and speak again what we have heard: God's free redeeming word. Verse 3 And we accept bread at his table, broken and shared, a living sign. Here in this world, dying and living, we are each other's bread and wine. This is the place where we can receive what we need to increase: God's justice and God's peace.
Chords
[Intro]
G C G C D G[Verse 1]
G C G D
What is this place where we are meeting?
C Bm Em C7 D G
Only a house, the earth its floor,
C G D
Walls and a roof sheltering people,
C Bm Em C7 D G
windows for light, an o – pen door.
Bm C G Bm C D G Em D Em A7 Bm G
Yet it becomes a body that lives when we are ga – thered here,
C G C D G
and know our God is near.[Verse 2]
G C G D
Words from afar, stars that are falling,
C Bm Em C7 D G
sparks that are sown in us like seed.
C G D
Names for our God, dreams, signs, and wonders
C Bm Em C7 D G
sent from the past are what we need.
Bm C G Bm C D G Em D Em A7 Bm G
We in this place re – member and speak again what we have heard:
C G C D G
God’s free redeeming word.[Verse 3]
G C G D
And we accept bread at his table,
C Bm Em C7 D G
broken and shared, a li – ving sign.
C G D
Here in this world, dying and living,
C Bm Em C7 D G
we are each o – ther’s bread and wine.
Bm C G Bm C D G Em D Em A7 Bm G
This is the place where we can receive what we need to in – crease:
C G C D G
God’s justice and God’s peace.
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Huub Oosterhuis – What Is This Place?
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