Walking in the Beautiful Light of God

What a blessed peace we know as we travel here below

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [What a blessed peace we know as we travel here below]
Published in 9 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 What a blessed peace we know as we travel here below,
While we’re walking i the beautiful light of God;
Brighter, fairer grows the way as we journey day by day,
While we’re walking in the beautiful light of God.

Refrain:
Walking in the beautiful light of God,
Walking in the beautiful light of God;
In communion with the Lord,
Trusting in His holy word,
We are walking in the beautiful light of God.

2 Like the sunlight from above God reveals His wondrous love,
While we’re walking in the beautiful light of God;
Here redemption’s crimson flow makes us whiter than the snow,
While we’re walking in the beautiful light of God. [Refrain]

3 Holding sweet communion here with our blessed Lord so dear,
We are walking in the beautiful light of God;
From all condemnation free, having perfect victory,
We are walking in the beautiful light of God. [Refrain]

4 Over mountains rough and steep, thro’ the valleys long and deep,
We are walking in the beautiful light of God;
To the mansions of delight, to the land where comes no night,
We are walking in the beautiful light of God. [Refrain]

Source: Great Gospel Songs #95

Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: What a blessed peace we know as we travel here below
Title: Walking in the Beautiful Light of God
Author: Haldor Lillenas
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Walking in the beautiful light of God
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances (1 - 9 of 9)

Glorious Gospel Hymns #473

Praise and Worship #255

Praise and Worship #255

Assembly Songs #206

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Devotion and Praise #207

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Great Gospel Songs #95

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Light and Life Songs No. 4 #124

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New Songs of the Old Faith #164

Songs of the Sanctuary #252

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