LAMENT AND LONGING FOR HEALING 797 We Cannot Measure How You Heal = Pr i 1 We can - not mea - sure how you heal or 2 The pain that will, ~—not_— go a - way, the 3S0 some have come who need your help and s — = : PoP ee a 6 swer ev - ery suf - ferer’s prayer, —_yet that clings from things ~—long past, _—the have come to make a - mends, as. = © =—* —— fal oo ; = we be - lieve your grace re - sponds where | fear of what =the = fu. ~~ ture holds, are hands which shaped and saved =the. = world ~— are J ‘This 20th-century text from the Tona Community grapples with the realities of illness and pain, not only as they affiet the body but even more as they lay waste to mind and soul. The traditional folk melody helps to ‘convey the sort of communal experience assumed in the last stanza, ‘TOA Join Bell and Graham Maule, 1969 ‘YE BANKS AND BRAES MUSIC: Satish melody are John L el, 1989 (Mo Test and Moxie © 1989 WRC, loa Cammunty (admin. CIA Publications, Inc.)LAMENT AND LONGING FOR HEALING —~ hands, though blood - ied on the cross, sur - pres - ent — too is love — which __ tends the let your Spir - it meet us_—ihere to JN, I>, J) ES wo a4) oF oF +P ’ Lr vive to hold and heal and warn, to hurt = we nev = er —shoped = to.—find,—_— the mend the bod - y, mind, and soul, —to — —~ P AS cr - oy all through death to_—Ciife. and pri - vate ag - o - nies in - side, the dis - en - tan - gle peace » from pain, and — ca = dle = chil, ~~~ dren_—_yet un - born, mem - 0 - fies that haunt the mind. make your bro - ken peo - ple whole.