In January 1987, our Congregation was observing Life Sunday. We needed a Hymn of the Day, so I sat down and began writing. My very first hymn, Life is a Gift From God was born. It is set to the tune Diademata. Only three verses in length, it said what I wanted it to say.
Life is a gift from God,
Who ordered all my days
And wrote them in His Book of Life
So I could give Him praise!
He guards and still preserves
That life He gave to me,
And loves me with a Father’s love
and will eternally!
Life is a Holy Gift
Which God alone can give.
He sets before us death and life.
Choose life that you might live!
For God has sent His Son
Who could have come a king,
but chose a mother’s womb instead
Eternal Life to bring.
Life is the Gift of God
So Jesus did partake,
And took upon our human form
His heirs He did us make!
When we were being knit
He knew who we would be
And marked us as His very own
His Death has set us free!
You Are Not Your Own 
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