#635: We Walk by Faith

[lutheranhymns]

The tune is by the prolific Marty Haugen, with a random 2/4 measure thrown in in the midst of 3/4 just to mess with us, I guess. The tune name is Shanti, which is the Sanskrit word for "peace" and probably a reference to Jesus' greeting of peace in the first verse. It's better known in English for being quoted in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," which I haven't even read and am still aware of it as a pretentious multilingual allusion, so...bizarre highbrow choice there I guess. The text is better than I'm making this sound and alludes to Jesus' appearance to Thomas in the Easter stories; although Thomas gets an iffy reputation for doubting the resurrection at first, he's also one of the first people to identify Jesus as God.