God's Way is Best

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God has a plan for every life

Author: Mrs. C. H. Morris
Tune: [God has a plan for every life]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 God has a plan for ev’ry life,
Our guide and pattern He;
If in His will we but confide,
In faith and love in Him abide,
Our lives shall blissful be.

Chorus:
God’s way is best, ‘tis always best,
He plans my life for me;
Now in His will I sweetly rest
Who plans my life for me.

2 I do not ask to choose my way,
For ignorant am I;
And oft what seemeth best to me,
Some direful evil proves to be,—
I must on Him rely. [Chorus]

3 In God’s sweet will is perfect rest
For all who in Him trust,
Release from worry, strife or fret,
From ill forebodings, vain regret,—
Saved to the uttermost. [Chorus]

4 As clay so may I pliant be
In Christ the Master’s hands;
So may He mold and fashion me,
Until His likeness He shall see,
Complete in Him to stand. [Chorus]

Source: Light and Life Songs No. 4 #104

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Author: Mrs. C. H. Morris

Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by." Mary Louise VanDyke Go to person page >

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First Line:	God has a plan for every life
Title:	God's Way is Best
Author:	Mrs. C. H. Morris
Refrain First Line:	God's way is best
Publication Date:	1909
Copyright:	Public Domain