To believe in the redemptive love of God through Jesus is to believe in a reordering of life, to believe that things are not as they seem. What depth of understanding he must have had of living hell what horror he must have experienced in the prison of both his own mind and at the will of evil men who find the insane easy prey.Īnd yet within all that he could pen these words. These words, poignant words of the love of God from someone who suffered from a disease of the mind. The story goes that he must have scribbled it in one of his “saner” moments. The words were found scratched on the walls of an insane asylum by a patient. It has outlived campy songs, sung with clear voices while holding hands with the Boyfriend in Murree it has outlived worship choruses, sung with sincerity across the globe.īut I didn’t know its history until recently. I remember singing it as a little girl, learning to play it as a young piano student, and memorizing it as a college kid. It has been my favorite hymn for as long as I can remember.
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