All As God Wills
Verse 1
All as God wills, Who wisely heeds To give or to withhold, And knoweth more of all my needs, Than all my prayers have told.
Verse 2
Enough that blessings undeserved Have marked my erring track; That, wheresoe’er my feet have swerved, His chastening turned me back.
Verse 3
That more and more a providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time and sense Sweet with eternal good.
Verse 4
That death seems but a covered way Which opens into light Wherein no blinded child can stray Beyond the Father’s sight;
Verse 5
That care and trial seem at last, Through memory’s sunset air, Like mountain ranges overpast, In purple distance fair;
Verse 6
That all the jarring notes of life Seem blending in a psalm, And all the angles of its strife Slow rounding into calm.
Verse 7
And so the shadows fall apart, And so the west winds play; And all the windows of my heart I open to the day.
Verse 8
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear ; But, grateful, take the good I find. The best of now and here.