Telephone Line to Heaven

Loved with everlasting love,

Led by grace that love to know,

Spirit breathing from above,

Thou hast taught me it is so.

Oh, this full and perfect peace!

Oh, this transport all divine!

In a love which cannot cease,

I am His and He is mine.

 

2) Heaven above is softer blue,

Earth around is sweeter green,

Something lives in every hue

Christless eyes have never seen

Birds with gladder songs o'erflow,

Flowers with deeper beauties shine,

Since I know, as now I know,

I am His and He is mine.

 

3) Things that once were wild alarms

Cannot now disturb my rest;

Closed in everlasting arms,

Pillowed on the loving breast;

Oh, to lie for ever here!

Doubt and care and self resign,

While He whispers in my ear

I am His and He is mine.

 

4) His for ever, only His;

Who the Lord and me shall part?

Ah, with what a rest of bliss,

Christ can fill the loving heart!

Heaven and earth may fade and flee;

Firstborn light in gloom decline;

But while God and I shall be,

I am His and He is mine.

 

286       (Ab)       MP 464

I don't know about tomorrow,

I just live from day to day,

I don't borrow from its sunshine,

For its skies may turn to grey.

I don't worry o'er the future,

For I know what Jesus said,

And today I'll walk beside Him,

For He knows what is ahead.

Chorus:

Many things about tomorrow

I don't seem to understand

But I know who holds tomorrow,

And I know who holds my hand.

 

2) Every step is getting brighter

As the golden stairs I climb,

Every burden's getting lighter,

Every cloud is silver lined;

There the sun is always shining,

There no tear will dim the eye;

At the ending of the rainbow,

Where the mountains touch the sky.

 

3) I don't know about tomorrow,

It may bring me poverty;

But the One who feeds the sparrow,

Is the One who stands by me;

And the path that be my portion,

May be thru' the flame or flood,

But His presence goes before me,

And I'm covered with His blood.

 

288        (Ab)        MP 427