O love that will not let me go
I love this song – we sang it last night at YAF and it reminded me how much I like it – the melody is pretty, but the words are also really powerful for me – beautiful and poignant and hopeful…
O Love that will not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
that in thine ocean depths its flow
may richer, fuller be.
O Light that followest all my way,
I yield my flick’ring torch to thee,
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
that in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
may brighter, fairer be.
Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee,
I trace the rainbow through the rain
and feel the promise is not vain
that morn shall tearless be.
O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
and from the ground thereblossoms red
life that shall endless be.