"Gracious God, You Send Great Blessings"

Two years ago, I wrote a post about "Gracious God, You Send Great Blessings."  About a month ago, I found a few more features to note.

In the second verse, creation is described as "Filled with creatures large and small."  "Large and small" is a merism.

At the end of that verse, there's the line "May our care encircle all," sung to this phrase from the tune "Holy Manna":

The three syllables of "encircle" are each sung to a different pitch (F A G), so while the intervals aren't very large, there's something of a sense of breadth and of the word's meaning.

The hymn's refrain is:

Lord, we pray that we, Your people

Who Your gifts unnumbered claim,

Through the sharing of Your blessings

May bring glory to Your name.

The third line is sung to this phrase:

"Blessings" is sung with a melisma (A G F D), and because it's spread out to more notes, there's a sense of its being "shar[ed]."