First Sunday Meditation: Rise My Soul And Stretch Thy Wings

"For He satisfies the longing soul

and fills the hungry soul with good."

Psalm 107:9

Rise my soul, and stretch thy wings

Thy better portion trace;

Rise from transitory things

Toward heaven, thy destined place.

Sunrise over the Caribbean Sea

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Sun and moon and stars decay,

Time shall soon this earth remove;

Rise my soul, and haste away

To seats prepared above.

Rivers to the ocean run,

Nor stay in all their course;

Fire ascending seeks the sun;

Both speed them to their source:

So my soul, derived from God,

Longs to view His glorious face,

Forward tends to His abode,

To rest in His embrace.

Cease, my soul, then cease to mourn,

Press onward to the prize;

Soon the Saviour will return

Triumphant in the skies:

Yet a season, and we know

Happy entrance will be given,

All our sorrows left below,

And earth exchanged for heaven.

Amen

Sunset over the Sea 

Between the Yucatan Peninsula and Cozumel Mexico

"Aspiration"

Reverend Robert Seagrave

(1742)

James Nares

(1715-1783)

"The Foundery Collection"

(1742)