This Is My Father's World

Enjoyed this hymn at church on Sunday (also cool that we recognized two members of the worship band from the jazz band we'd paid to see at a club the night before)...

This is my Father's world, and to my listening ears

All nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres

This is my Father's world, I rest me in the thought

Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas, His hand the wonders wrought

This is my Father's world, the birds their carols raise

The morning light, the lily white, declare their Maker's praise

This is my Father's world, He shines in all that's fair

In the rustling grass I hear him pass, He speaks to me everywhere

This is my Father's world, O let me never forget

That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet

This is my Father's world, the battle is not done

Jesus who died shall be satisfied, and earth and heaven be one

This is my Father's world, dreaming, I see His face

I open my eyes, and in glad surprise cry, "The Lord is in this place"

This is my Father's world, from the shining courts above

The Beloved One, His Only Son, came, a pledge of deathless love

This is my Father's world, should my heart be ever sad?

The Lord is King, let the heavens ring, God reigns, let the earth be glad

This is my Father's world, now closer to Heaven bound

For dear to God is the earth Christ trod, no place but is holy ground