Come Where the Lillies Bloom - Adoration at Orangevale

INVITATION TO ENJOY THE WORKS OF GOD'S HANDS

Knowing the need of a world full of pain, suffering, sorrow, and all sorts of worries, God invites us to bask in His peace through nature and enjoy the works of His hands. Our longing for lasting peace is given a taste of joyful serenity in His creation in this happy song.

Adoration's Director, Jym Tayag, made fun of and disliked this song when he was a toddler in the 1960s upon hearing it in his boyhood church sung by the then Angeles City Church Choir which to him then was composed of all oldies.

Jym never heard the song again from anyone until a couple of months ago when a choir from the Philippines sang it at Stockton Church. Reminded of his childhood days, Jym felt inspired that the song could be beautiful depending on how it is sung.

Searching through the internet, finding only fragments of the song score, and surprised that it was a very old song, older than he originally imagined, published in the 1870s, he felt he could restore a complete score and revised some notes and create a richness and a wide range of dynamics and expressions according to his liking to serve as a teaching piece for his singers on a variety of dynamics, tempos, variations, and expressions. He was able to restore the song to this current rendition as sung by his own missionary chorale group - ADORATION.

In a world full of pain, suffering, sorrow and all sorts of worries, our longing for lasting peace is given a taste in the serenity of nature that God created for us to enjoy.

Original words and music written by Will Thompson, this song was sung in its present edition by ADORATION in A WORSHIP IN SONGS at Orangevale Seventh-Day Adventist Church on November 1, 2025. Directed by Dr. Jym Tayag.

ACCOMPANIST:

Marilyn Cuyuca Tangonan - pianist

SOPRANOS:

Luzette Dela Fuente
Angel Dela Paz Baltazar
Jovelyn Felices
Regina Fuller
Sharon Baltazar
Marilyn Araba Tayag
Sweet Cabrera
Milady Sowa
Lizlyn Lucrida

ALTOS:

Venus Rabina Castro
Normita Asuncion
Ritchie Jane Maxwell
Mildred Lardizabal Garcesa
Michelle Dela Paz Baltazar

TENORS:

Martic Garcia
Gene Sagaral
Abraham Dela Fuente
Edwin Dale William Araba
Janet Nichols

BASSES:

Jorge Wooder
Karl Tangonan
Kevin Broxton
Kito Asuncion