Gott gab uns Atem

"" is a 1982 Christian hymn in German, with text by Eckart Bücken and music by Fritz Baltruweit. It appears in major modern Protestant and Catholic hymnals in German.

History

"" was written in 1982 with text by and music by the singer-songwriter Fritz Baltruweit. "" is contained in the German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob of 2013 as GL 468. The hymn is part of the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch as EG 432. It is also contained in other hymnals and songbooks.

Text and theme

"" is in three stanzas of four lines each. The first lines of all stanzas point at something that God gave: breath, ears, hands, and their purpose: to live, to understand, to act.