Huzzah! A New Year!

As a new year approaches, filled with reflections of the past year and ideas for the new, I wanted to share with you this beautiful hymn from John Newton.

While with ceaseless course the sun

Hasted through the former year

Many souls their race have run

Never more to meet us here:

Fixed in an eternal state

They have done with all below

We a little longer wait,

But how little none can know.

As the winged arrow flies 

Speedily the mark to find,

As the lightning from the skies

Darts and leaves no trace behind,

Swiftly thus our fleeting days

Bear us down life's rapid stream;

Upward, Lord, our spirits raise,

All below is but a dream.

Thanks for mercies past receive;

Pardon of our sins renew;

Teach us henceforth how to live

With eternity in view;

Bless thy Word to young and old;

Fill us with a Saviour's love;

And when life's short tale is told,

May we dwell with thee above.

by John Newton, 1774

-James

Stand Firm