""How shall He not with Him freely give us all things?""

(Romans 8:32)

With joy and with gladness we live out our days;
God’s true loving-kindness compels us to praise;
He crowns us with mercies–amongst them our food;
Surrounds us with blessings, both pleasant and good.

He gave us His Son that through Him we might be
Rescued from ruin and for ever set free,
And opened through Him the blest way to God’s throne,
That God as our Father might by us be known.

Then, too, He has given us His wonderful Word,
That through its blest pages His sure voice be heard;
It tells whence we came, and reveals where we go,
And instructs us in living our life here below.

And then the blest Comforter, Whom He did send,
With us forever our Guide and our Friend;
For all of these mercies we gratefully raise
To God, the great Giver, our thanks and our praise.

J. Danson Smith