Hope for the New Year

LIBERTY, December 30, 2009 - As we approach the New Year with great hope looking forward with confidence to our common future my hope is and prayer is Abide with Me.

The words to this enduring song are by Henry F. Lyte, 1793-1847 and the music is written by William Henry Monk, 1823-1889.

Here are the words…

Abide with me: fast falls the eventide;
the darkness deepens; Lord with me abide:
When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,
Help for the helpless, O abide with me!

Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see:
O Thou who changest not, abide with me!

Hold Thou Thy cross before me closing eyes:
Shine thro’ the gloom, and point me to the skies:
Heav’n’s morning breaks and earth’s vain shadows flee:
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me!

 

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