Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 31, 2025 • 6 Comments
Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee! E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me, still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee! Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, darkness be over me, my rest a stone; yet in my... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 24, 2025 • 4 Comments
Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee. Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and mighty! God in three Persons, blessed Trinity! Holy, Holy, Holy! all the saints adore thee, Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea. Cherubim and seraphim, falling down before thee, Who was and... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 10, 2025 • 10 Comments
Morning has broken like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing, Praise for the morning, Praise for them springing fresh from the world. Sweet the rain’s new fall, sunlit from heaven. Like the first dewfall on the first grass. Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden Sprung... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 03, 2025 • 10 Comments
Oh Lord, my God, When I, in awesome wonder, Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made, I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed, Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee How great Thou art, how great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Savior... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 29, 2025 • 20 Comments
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, The emblem of suff’ring and shame. And I love that old cross where the dearest and best For a world of lost sinners was slain. So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross ‘Til my trophies at last I lay down. I will cling to the... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 15, 2025 • 9 Comments
Be My love, for no one else can end this yearning, This need that You and You alone create. Just fill My heart the way you’ve filled My dreams, The dreams that You inspire with every sweet desire. Be My love, and with Your kisses set Me burning. One kiss is all I need to... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 01, 2025 • 2 Comments
To dream the impossible dream. To fight the unbeatable foe. To bear with unbearable sorrow. To run where the brave dare not go. To right the un-rightable wrong. To love, pure and chaste from afar. To try when your arms are too weary to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest! To follow that... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 08, 2025 • 15 Comments
… He can turn the tides and calm the angry sea. He alone decides who writes a symphony. He lights every star that makes the darkness bright. He keeps watch all through each long and lonely night. He still finds the time to hear a child’s first prayer. Saint or sinner calls and always finds... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 25, 2025 • 25 Comments
For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise. For the beauty of each hour of the day and of the night, hill and vale, and tree... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 09, 2024 • 12 Comments
To everything turn, turn, turn, There is a season turn, turn, turn, And a time to every purpose under Heaven. A time to be born, a time to die. A time to plant, a time to reap. A time to kill, a time to heal. A time to laugh, a time to weep. To everything... Read More
