IF YOU COULD SEE WHERE I CAME FROM

LORD, THANK YOU FOR THIS MORNING...THANK YOU FOR PREPARING MY HEART AND MIND TO FACE THIS DAY...I AM AT YOUR MERCY TO RECEIVE YOUR GRACE...

EVEN IN MY WEAKNESS, YOU CALLED ME TO LAY BEFORE YOU MY HEART

YOU ENCAMPED ABOUT MY SOUL AND SPOKE IN A STILL SMALL VOICE

YOU ALONE HAVE RENT THE VEIL OF MY HEART AND MIND

THE WIND OF YOUR SPIRIT BLOWS THERE FREELY

COMING AND GOING AS YOU WILL

YOU SHOW ME THE PATH OF LIFE

AND IN YOUR PRESENCE IS FULLNESS OF JOY

AT YOUR RIGHT HAND ARE PLEASURES EVERMORE

YOU FEED ME THE BREAD THAT THE WORLD KNOWS NOT OF

YOU, MY LORD ARE THAT LIVING BREAD

ALL GIFTS AND PROPHESYING WILL CEASE

AND THOUGH I UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES

IF I DO NOT HAVE MY BEING IN YOU

I AM NOTHING

EVEN IF I HAD ALL FAITH AND COULD MOVE MOUNTAINS

WITHOUT YOU, I AM NOTHING

FOR IN YOU ALONE I CAN BEAR ALL THINGS

BELIEVE ALL THINGS

HOPE ALL THINGS

ENDURE ALL THINGS

ALL ELSE WILL CEASE AND FADE AWAY

BUT YOU, MY LORD, REMAIN

YOUR WORD REMAINS FOREVER

YOU ARE THAT LIVING WORD

YOU DWELL IN MY HEART

I LONG TO KNOW YOU

EVEN AS I AM KNOWN

TO PUT AWAY ALL CHILDISH THINGS

AND STAND PLEASING IN YOUR SIGHT

THANK YOU LORD FOR WALKING WITH ME THIS MORNING

FOR CAUSING ME TO MEASURE HOW FAR YOU'VE BROUGHT ME

IN THIS JOURNEY OF FAITH, THIS JOURNEY OF LIFE

FOR REJOICING TOGETHER OVER SAINTS MADE PERFECT

FOR THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES WHO REJOICE AND GIVE

PRAISE BEFORE YOUR THRONE

THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTY OF YOUR FINISHED WORK

FOR APPOINTING TO US BEAUTY FOR ASHES

THE OIL OF GLADNESS FOR MOURNING

A GARMENT OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS;

THAT WE MIGHT BE CALLED THE TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

THE PLANTING OF THE LORD

THAT YOU MIGHT BE GLORIFIED MY LORD

YOU ARE THE VINE

I AM BUT AN EXTENDED BRANCH OF YOU

FROM AGE TO AGE THE SAME

THAT I MIGHT BEAR FRUIT UNTO SALVATION

FOR AS THE EARTH BRINGS FORTH HER BUD

AND AS THE GARDEN CAUSES THE THINGS THAT ARE GROWN

IN IT TO SPRING FORTH; SO YOU MY LORD GOD, WILL CAUSE

RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PRAISE TO SPRING FORTH BEFORE

THE NATIONS.

I AM "NOW" CENTERED IN YOU

RELYING ON YOU

LISTENING TO YOU

WAITING ON YOU

SPEAK LORD, EVEN AS YOU WALKED WITH ME IN YESTERDAY'S GARDEN

YESTERDAY'S GARDEN....

I WALKED THROUGH YESTERDAY'S GARDEN

I'VE WALKED THERE MANY A TIME

NOW IT'S LIFELESS AND EMPTY

WHERE WEEDS AND POISON IVY CLIMB

YET THE ECHOS OF SONGS THROUGH THE AGES PAST

THOSE SWEET HALLOWED HYMNS OF PRAISE

REVERBERATE STILL ALL AROUND ME

IN SO MANY CHERISHED WAYS

"PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW"

STILL RESTS UPON MY TONGUE

I HEAR IT STILL WITHIN MY HEART

IT NEEDS BE EVER SUNG

SUNG WITH HALLELUJAHS

SUNG WITH GREAT AMENS

SUNG WITH GLORIOUS LONGING

WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS

SO I'LL LISTEN ER SO CLOSELY

TO LOVE'S SWEET, FAMILIAR REFRAINS

AND THANK THE GOD OF HEAVEN

AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN

AS I WALKED IN YESTERDAY'S GARDEN

I WALKED AND TALKED WITH HIM

AND REMEMBERED YESTERDAY'S BLOSSOMS

THAT BLOOMED THERE JUST FOR HIM

THEY TOLD OF THE OLD, OLD STORY

OF JESUS AND HIS LOVE

THEIR PRAISES, STILL TRIUMPHANT

NOW IN HEAVENLY REALMS ABOVE

THOUGH FLOWERS FADE BEFORE ME

THEIR FRAGRANCE FILLS MY DAY

EVEN THROUGH DESERT WASTE LAND

THOSE GARDENS OF YESTERDAY

I'LL LISTEN EVER SO CLOSELY

FOR LOVE'S SWEET MELODIOUS REFRAIN

AND THANK THE GOD OF HEAVEN

AGAIN, AND AGAIN AND AGAIN