Loving Spirit, loving Spirit, you have chosen me to be-- you have drawn me to your wonder, you have set your sign on me. Like a mother, you enfold me, hold my life within your own, feed me with your very body, form me of your flesh and bone. Like a father, you protect me, teach me the discerning eye, hoist me up upon your shoulder, let me see the world from high. Friend and lover, in your closeness I am known and held and blessed; in your promised is my comfort, in your presence I may rest. Loving Spirit, loving Spirit, you have chosen me to be-- you have drawn me to your wonder, you have set your sign on me.