Monday Meditation: Again Thy Glorious Sun Doth Rise

"It is because of the Lord's mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed,
because His tender compassions fail not. They are new every morning; 
 great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness."
(Lamentations 3:22-23)

Sunrise

Cape May New Jersey

(2011)

Photograph courtesy/Stephen L. Tabone

Stephen L. Tabone Nature Photography

Again Thy glorious sun doth rise,

I praise Thee, O my Lord;

With courage, strength, and hope renewed,

I touch the joyful chord.

On good and evil, Lord, Thy sun

Is rising as on me;

Let me in patience and in love

Seek thus to be like Thee.

May I in virtue and in faith,

And with Thy gifts content;

Rejoice beneath Thy covering wings,

Each day in mercy sent.

Safe with Thy counsel in my work,

Thee, Lord, I'll keep in view,

And feel that still Thy bounteous grace

Is every morning new.

"Again Thy Glorious Sun Doth Rise"
(1814)
Johan Olaf Wallin
(1779-1839)
Swedish ordained minister, orator, poet,
and hymn writer who later became Archbishop
of the Church of Sweden at Uppsala (1837-1839)