Text: Timothy Dudley-Smith (© 1985 Hope Publishing Co.)
Tune: Max Miller (© 1984 Max Miller)

Recorded live at First United Methodist Church in Martinsville, IN
Hymn treatments and interludes improvised by Kartika Putri, Organist, with the congregation's entrances lead by the FUMC Sanctuary Choir

1 Behold a broken world, we pray,
 where want and war increase,
 and grant us, Lord, in this our day,
 the ancient dream of peace:


2 A dream of swords to sickles bent,
 of spears to scythe and spade,
 the weapons of our warfare spent,
 a world of peace remade;


3 Where every battle flag is furled
 and every trumpet stilled,
 where wars shall cease in all the world,
 a waking dream fulfilled.


4 No force of arms shall there prevail
 nor justice cease its sway;
 nor shall their loftiest visions fail
 the dreamers of the day.


5 O Prince of peace, who died to save,
 a lost world to redeem,
 and rose in triumph from the grave,
 behold our waking dream.


6 Bring, Lord, your better world to birth,
 your kingdom, love's domain;
 where peace with God, and peace on earth,
 and peace eternal reign.


Hymn: Behold A Broken World (tune: Marsh chapel)

Kartika Putri