When your barque has left the harbour
Guided by breeze alone
You will be amazed at all
The things you will be shown
Consign your fate to the tiller man
Your passage has been paid
To places you cannot imagine
Your way is already laid
A soul crying out in anguish
Is aware of a better life
Without war and conflict
Suffering, contention and strife
Such a life is also without
Lust, self-love and fear
These, the enemies of joy,
Are ever lurking near
Slay lust with a desire for God
Love Him and self-love dies
Fear of God kills all other fears
This way salvation lies
Grieving turns to joy
Suffering brings you bliss
Then you are accepted
What could be better than this?
Let me walk in the land of holiness
From which loneliness has been banished
The place where no other
Need ever be considered
Where fear and grief are memories
Where heartbreak never comes
To see how His Will
Is guiding us still
O God! Accept me
in Thy paradise of holiness
Let me be nothing
Let me see
Only Thee
Let me be
Alone with Thee
If you are not able to fly
Just turn
If you are not able to climb
Just turn
If you are not able to swim
Just turn
Turn unto Him and you will swim
And climb and fly
Not where you wish to go
Where He wishes you to be
Not by your power
By His
He will take you to places
Beyond imagination
Beyond description
Beyond understanding
You could never imagine
The good He has destined for you
The good He has placed within you
The good He showers upon you
Only turn
And you will know
O inmost being! Speak to my pen
Let it move on the pages before it
Let rivers flow and stars shine
Throughout the night
Giving light
To quicken mankind
Let it tell what it has been told
Let the mysteries come out
Let it not conceal secrets
Nor betray doubt
Let it tell of the Glory
Which brought us here
That wondrous story
So very near
Let it show the pathway
That we may return
To the home
For which we all yearn
Where do you go when
you lie yourself down
At the end of every day?
Where do you go when
the lights are out
And your will has been taken away?
Accept a will much greater than yours
Let that will accept you
You will go where the righteous go
See what the angels do
Where will I go
In the middle of the night?
When I have abandoned
My ordinary sight
Where will He lead me
With my hand in His own?
What will I learn?
What will I be shown?
What will I know
That I don’t know now?
Will it be why?
Will it be how?
When on the inner seas you are tossed
Follow His Will until yours is lost
Many a sailor is lost at sea
Believing the ocean was made by he
The soul is deep the heart is vast
Containing all from first to last
It was created to be a sign
It is not yours it is not mine
When you are finally lost at sea
Nothing of you can be found
You will be safely in His hands
You will be homeward bound
The soul is a trust
Not belonging to you
It will be His
Whatever you do
Wonderment is the place where we stop being afraid to speak because we are not afraid of heartbreak anymore.
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