Words & Music:Bernadette Farrell (b1957)
中文翻譯：巫珮怡

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Verse 1:
Longing for light, we wait in darkness.
我們在黑暗中候盼亮光，
Longing for truth, we turn to you.
渴慕真理，我們投靠祢！
Make us your own, your holy people,
讓我們成為祢聖潔的子民，
light for the world to see.
在世上顯出祢的光明。

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Verse 2:
Longing for peace, our world is troubled.
這世界多紛擾，我們候盼和平；
Longing for hope, many despair.
沮喪絕望之中，引頸渴望；
Your word alone has power to save us.
只有祢的話語有救贖的大能；
Make us your living voice.
讓我們發出祢的聲音。

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Longing for food, many are hungry.
多少人陷於饑餓之中，難求溫飽；
Longing for water, many still thirst.
多少人饑渴乾涸，尋找泉源；
Make us your bread, broken for others,
讓我們成為祢的餅，為人擘開；
shared until all are fed.
切切分享直到眾生得飽足。

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Verse 3:
Longing for shelter, many are homeless.
多少人無家流離，但求片瓦蔭庇；
Longing for warmth, many are cold.
多少人凄冷瑟縮，願嚐暖和；
Make us your building, sheltering others,
讓我們成為祢的居所，提供護蔭；
walls made of living stone.
牆垣由活石所建立。

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Verse 4:
Many the gifts, many the people,
many the hearts that yearn to belong.
Let us be servants to one another,
making your kingdom come.
眾多禮物，眾多的人；
眾多顆心靈渴求屬祢；
讓我們成為彼此的僕人，
同心服侍讓祢國度降臨。

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Chorus:
Christ, be our light! Shine in our hearts.
基督啊，作我們的光！
Shine through the darkness.
照亮我們內心，穿越幽暗。
Christ, be our light!
基督啊，作我們的光！
Shine in your church gathered today.
照亮祢的教會，就在今天！

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