Sunday Inspiration

Fanny Crosby was a prolific hymn writer, who lived in the mid 1800s. Not only was she blind from a young age - read more here - but in 1859, a year after she married, she gave birth to a child. The only thing she ever said aloud about that experience was "God gave us a tender babe" and "soon the angels came down and took our infant up to God and His throne."

Ten years later, when Howard Doane knocked on her door with a tune, and forty minutes before he needed to catch his train, as she heard it she clapped her hands and said, "Why, that says, 'Safe in the arms of Jesus!'" She wrote the words in half an hour, and Doane caught his train.

Ms. Crosby used the hymn to comfort many grieving parents. She said it was written for the bereaved, and "in a class of it's own".

1. Safe in the arms of Jesus,

Safe on His gentle breast,

There by His love o’ershaded,

Sweetly my soul shall rest.

Hark! ’tis the voice of angels

Borne in a song to me,

Over the fields of glory,

Over the jasper sea. 

Chorus:

Safe in the arms of Jesus,

Safe on His gentle breast,

There by His love o’ershaded,

Sweetly my soul shall rest. 

2 Safe in the arms of Jesus,

Safe from corroding care,

Safe from the world’s temptations,

Sin cannot harm me there.

Free from the blight of sorrow,

Free from my doubts and fears;

Only a few more trials,

Only a few more tears! 

3 Jesus, my heart’s dear refuge,

Jesus has died for me;

Firm on the Rock of Ages,

Ever my trust shall be.

Here let me wait with patience,

Wait till the night is o’er;

Wait till I see the morning

Break on the golden shore. 

I trust these beautiful words speak to your soul today.