What a dirge we send You, Lord, time and time again,
Injustice is the major tune, hurt and grief and pain,
Hearts burning with angry fire, while our tears fall like rain.
Teach us, Lord, how to forgive!
Blow by blow we forge it, each link of hate's own chain,
Created by our own hard hearts, black with anger's stain -
Each wrong done a brand new link, each new gift of pain.
Teach us, Lord, how to forgive!
Harder than steel it wraps our lives, this chain we forge of hate,
Bitter as sin, hotter than fire as it shifts through our lives to create
New wounds, new hurts that lead ever on to Hell's open, hungry gate.
Teach us, Lord, how to forgive!
You, O Lord, gave the one true key to unlock this evil chain,
Forgive, you said, and if needed more, forgive them once again.
"Forgive," you showed us by your own words said in your dying pain.
O Lord, give us hearts that will forgive!
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/j/a/jallworl.htm
Jesus is all the world to me, my life, my joy, my all;
He is my strength from day to day, without Him I would fall.
When I am sad, to Him I go, no other one can cheer me so;
When I am sad, He makes me glad, He’s my Friend.
Jesus is all the world to me, my Friend in trials sore;
I go to Him for blessings, and He gives them over and o’er.
He sends the sunshine and the rain, He sends the harvest’s golden grain;
Sunshine and rain, harvest of grain, He’s my Friend.
Jesus is all the world to me, and true to Him I’ll be;
O how could I this Friend deny, when He’s so true to me?
Following Him I know I’m right, He watches o’er me day and night;
Following Him by day and night, He’s my Friend.
Jesus is all the world to me, I want no better Friend;
I trust Him now, I’ll trust Him when life’s fleeting days shall end.
Beautiful life with such a Friend, beautiful life that has no end;
Eternal life, eternal joy, He’s my Friend.
Joh 10:28 and I give unto them eternal(everlasting) life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.