Text: | My God, My Father, While I Stray |
Author: | Charlotte Elliott, 1789-1871 |
Tune: | HANFORD |
Composer: | Arthur S. Sullivan, 1842-1900 |
1 My God, my Father, while I stray
Far from my home in life’s rough way,
O teach me from my heart to say,
“Thy will be done!”
2 Though dark my path, and sad my lot,
Let me be still and murmur not,
Or breathe the prayer divinely taught,
“Thy will be done!”
3 If Thou shouldst call me to resign
What most I prize, it ne’er was mine;
I only yield Thee what was Thine;
“Thy will be done!”
4 Let but my fainting heart be blest
With Thy sweet Spirit for its guest,
My God, to Thee I leave the rest;
“Thy will be done!”
5 Renew my will from day to day,
Blend it with Thine, and take away
All that now makes it hard to say,
“Thy will be done!”
Amen.
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First Line: | My God, my Father, while I stray |
Title: | My God, My Father, While I Stray |
Author: | Charlotte Elliott, 1789-1871 (alt. ) |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2006 |
Topic: | The Christian Way of Life: Aspiration and Consecration |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HANFORD |
Composer: | Arthur S. Sullivan, 1842-1900 |
Key: | D Major |