Suchen und fragen, hoffen und sehn

Diethard Zils wrote the text of "Suchen und fragen, hoffen und sehn" in 2006.^[1][2] The melody was composed by Jo Akepsimas [de].^[1] The song, of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL), is in three stanzas with a refrain, The stanzas have three lines, rhyming AAB, and the refrain, rhyming B, is repeated. The stanzas list different ways of acting together, with "und sich verstehn" (and understand each other) ending every second line. The refrain expresses that in this togetherness, God speaks his "yes", while "our no" dies.^[1]

"Suchen und fragen, hoffen und sehn" is part of the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob as GL 457, published in 2013. It is contained in more than 30 songbooks.^[1]

• Gotteslobvideo (GL 457): Suchen und fragen, hoffen und sehn on YouTube