Morning Has Broken

Third Day sings the familiar hymn "Morning Has Broken" as three short verses of thanks, each built on the idea of a first time. A blackbird speaks "like the first bird," the dew falls "on the first grass," and the sunlight is "born of the one light, Eden saw play." Every sunrise is treated as a repeat of creation morning, not just another day on the calendar.

The second verse moves from sky to ground. The rain is "sunlit from heaven," the garden is wet and "sprung in completeness," and the whole scene is set where "his feet pass," so the beauty comes from God's own presence in it. The final verse turns personal: "Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning." The singer receives the day as a gift and answers with "praise with elation" for "God's recreation of the new day."

Lamentations 3:22-23 names the same fresh mercies "new every morning," Psalm 118:24 calls each day one the Lord has made to rejoice in, and Psalm 19:1 hears the heavens declaring God's glory, which is what the blackbird and the rain are doing here.