April 6, 2019 (Saturday)
Last Sunday our pianist, Kay Berthold, and I discussed the song featured in today’s blog. She played it for the offertory. We agreed that it is a very meaningful, comforting and encouraging song that touches the heart.
This hymn was a favorite of Wanda’s. She loved playing it for me whenever I sang it during the may years we shared our ministry together. It was almost always she that chose it when we presented it together. My model for singing it was George Beverly Shea.
William C. Martin 1910 I trust in God wherever I may be, Upon the land, or on the rolling sea, For come what may, from day to day, My heav’nly Father watches over me. Refrain: I trust in God, I know He cares for me; On mountain bleak or on the stormy sea; Though billows roll, He keeps my soul; My heav’nly Father watches over me. He makes the rose an object of His care, He guides the eagle through the pathless air, And surely He remembers me; My heav’nly Father watches over me. The valley may be dark, the shadows deep, But, oh, the Shepherd guards His lonely sheep; And through the gloom He’ll lead me home, My heav’nly Father watches over me. |