My Dear Jesus

My Dear Jesus healing the dying
And forgave them all their sin.
Lifted me while sick and crying
To a Heavenly home with Him!

Chorus:
My Dear Jesus! Precious Jesus!
How He fills my soul with joy!
And the blessed name of Jesus
Through the ages shalt my tongue employ!

O, how great the Father’s mercy
To each child who wilt receive.
Grace and love He giveth freely
If upon Him we believe.

My Dear Jesus take my future
Humbly at thy feet I fall.
My life – use it for thy pleasure
Jesus, I surrender all!

Tune: “I Will Praise Him”
Copyright Miriam Rainwater, June 2005
For Joy, whose Godly example encouraged me to pen these words.

The Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon

Who can deny a mighty hand

In these vast miles of stone?

This multicolored handiwork

Was carved by God alone!

The canyon walls in beauty rise

In shades of every hues.

Beneath an Arizona sky

The river courses through.

Some believe all this was carved

By years of sliding mud

But anyone who sees will know

It happened by a flood.

And one thing that we learn as this

Catastrophe is explored

This grand canyon bears His mark –

The glory of the Lord.

For Granddaddy and Grandmama, in remembrance of our trip to the canyon in the fall of 1999.

 Copyright Miriam Rainwater, June 28, 2005