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Text Information First Line: Father, in Thy mysterious presence kneeling Author: Samuel Johnson Meter: The Life in Christ: On behalf of the entire Hymnary. Father, in thy mysterious presence kneeling. Samuel Johnson Published in hymnals Printable scores: Representative Text 1 Father, in your mysterious presence kneeling, Now would our souls feel all your kindling love, For we are weak, and need some deep revealing Of trust and strength and calmness from above.
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They contribute a wee bit every time you click on one of their links. In this poem, Samuel Johnson North American, 19th century, not English, 18 century labels God's presence as mysterious, and dear. The first verse labels us mortals as weak and waiting for revelation of trust, strength and calmness. The conceit is that God's love is a warm flame of love kindling love, repeated in the last verse The meat of the poem is in the second and third verse.
Authoritative information about the hymn text Father, in thy mysterious presence kneeling, with lyrics, MIDI files, printable scores, PDF files, and piano resources. Father, in Thy mysterious presence kneeling, Fain would our souls feel all Thy kindling love; For we are weak, and need some deep revealing. Of trust and.
We have experienced doubt and sorrow, but there is a purpose to this, each step is part of a progression, and God sustains us through the purpose of each day. In fact, even though we may experience despair modern times would call it clinical depression or drug dependency or financial hardship , there is a serene, holy peace that abides in a subluminal space inside each of us, and it is the prayer of this poem that we realize this peace which is stronger than the momentary agony, and we may be still. In the last verse, the metaphor of God's love as being something which takes fire in us thus elavating it from metaphor to conceit is that the love strengthens us, and calms us for the agonies of our lives.
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