This Is My Example
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w&m: Francis Patrick O'Brien, 2001

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This is my example, love as I love you.
This is my example, love as I love you.

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[Verse 1]
Breaking bread with friends as his life was at an end,
Jesus knelt to wash their feet.

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[Verse 2]
In a time to come you will know what I have done;
Let me wash you, let me serve.

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[Verse 3]
Simon Peter said, "Wash my hands, my feet, my head!"
Jesus looked on him with love.

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[Verse 4]
Make my love complete, go and wash each other's feet;
what I have done so you must do.

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[Verse 5]
To the poor and weak, be the comfort that they seek;
let my example be your guide.

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[Verse 6]
May your lives be one in this work I have begun;
come and follow where I lead.

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[Verse 7]
Go__ forth and care for all people ev'rywhere.
Find your strength within my love.

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[Verse 8]
Speak my words of peace.  To the captives, bring release.
Go embrace them in my name.

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[Verse 9]
If my love you bear to the people ev'rywhere
all will know that you are mine.

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[Verse 10]
In your faith is pow'r to embrace the darkest hour;
Go without fear to heal and serve.

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[Verse 11]
This my life I give; I must die that you may live.
All this I do for love of you.

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[Verse 12]
When your lives are through I will come to welcome you.
We will be forever one.

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