O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go

I first heard of this hymn when I was in college. I had a close friend who worked at a hospital that had this hymn on one of its walls. She wrote the words down and then found the music for it. When I first read the words, I was taken in. Then I heard the music for it. I wrote the words to this hymn on the back pages of my Bible so that I wouldn't forget. Still read it. Still sing it.

O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go

O Love that wilt not let me go

I rest my weary soul in Thee

I give Thee back the life I owe

That in Thine ocean depths its flow 

May richer, fuller be.

O Light that followst all my way

I yield my flickering torch to Thee

My heart restores its borrowed ray

That in Thine sunshines glow its day

May brighter, fairer be.

O Joy that seeks me through pain

I cannot close my heart to Thee

I trace the rainbow thro' the rain

And feel the promise is not vain

That morn shall tearless be.

O Cross that liftest up my head

I dare not ask to hide from Thee

I lay in dust life's glory dead

And from the ground there blossoms red

Life that shall endless be.

by WestminsterChorus

Sung in a cathedral in Germany.