O That I May Walk With God – 2nd Version – Graphic Print

COMMENTARY

This is the oldest of my sacred poems, and, except for song tunes my very first poem. It was written in the mid-eighties and originated, as with other poems with a germinal thought from heaven. I mused, “How wonderful it would be to literally walk with God.” This poem is highly suited to several famous hymn tunes (see if you can make it fit one of your favorites such as O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing. The poem is centered on the idea that Christians can develop a deep and loving intimacy with God. It is wonderful to think that we can “breathe His Spirit’s breath, inhale the sweetness of His love, and lose the fear of death.” At last death will lose its ultimate power over us as we “lay our weary burdens down, through death in Him to hide.”