Thanks to God =
for my Redeemer,
Thanks for all Thou dost provide!
Thanks for =
times now but a memory,
Thanks for Jesus by my side!
Thanks for =
pleasant, balmy springtime,
Thanks for dark and stormy =
fall!
Thanks for tears by now forgotten,
Thanks for peace within =
my soul!
Thanks for =
prayers that Thou hast answered,
Thanks for what Thou dost =
deny!
Thanks for storms that I have weathered,
Thanks for all Thou =
dost supply!
Thanks for pain, and thanks for pleasure,
Thanks for =
comfort in despair!
Thanks for grace that none can measure,
Thanks =
for love beyond compare!
Thanks for =
roses by the wayside,
Thanks for thorns their stems =
contain!
Thanks for home and thanks for fireside,
Thanks for hope, =
that sweet refrain!
Thanks for joy and thanks for sorrow,
Thanks =
for heavenly peace with Thee!
Thanks for hope in the =
tomorrow,
Thanks through all eternity!
[Written by =
August Ludvig Storm, 1892
from the Salvation Army “War =
Cry” in Sweden,
translated in =
English by Carl Backstrom]
~~
Dr Bob Griffin =
[email protected] =
www.grif.net
"Jesus =
Knows Me, This I Love!"