Methodist-Hymns-629
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.
2: Enough that blessings undeserved
Have marked my erring track;
That, wheresoe’er my feet have swerved,
His chastening turned me back.
3: That more and more a providence
Of love is understood,
Making the springs of time and sense
Sweet with eternal good;
4: That death seems but a covered way
Which opens into light
Wherein no blinded child can stray
Beyond the Father’s sight;
5: That care and trial seem at last,
Through memory’s sunset air,
Like mountain ranges overpast,
In purple distance fair;
6: That all the jarring notes of life
Seem blending in psalms,
And all the angles of its strife
Slow rounding into calm.
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.
