Blessed Beyond Measure

When I look at this world

And see lives filled with hurt,

I remember 

All the pain I've never felt.

I wonder God, why not me?

My life has been so easy.

I'm no better, I know,

It's simply grace You chose to show.

I've been blessed 

By the hand of God,

And though I fail, He blesses anyhow.

There are no words to tell

Just how good God has been.

I've been blessed, so blessed,

I'm blessed beyond measure.

When I look at my life

My children and my wife,

I'm so thankful

For all He has given me.

I wonder God, why me?

I don't deserve such blessing.

I'm no better, I know,

It's simply grace You chose to show.

I've been blessed
By the hand of God
And though I fail, He blesses anyhow.
There are no words to tell
Just how good God has been.
I've been blessed, so blessed,
I'm blessed beyond measure.

Lord, as the years of time roll on and on,
To each promise You've been true.
But the greatest blessing in my life
Is to spend each day with You.


I've been blessed
By the hand of God
And though I fail, He blesses anyhow.
There are no words to tell
Just how good God has been.
I've been blessed, so blessed,
I'm blessed beyond measure.

I've been blessed,
Abundantly blessed,
Beyond measure.

Never Walk Alone

Never Walk Alone

Arms stretched out wide

Barely hanging on to life,

Left to suffer on Your own.

You came for all mankind

To bridge the great divide,

And somehow ended up alone.

Because of all the blood and tears You shed

I will never know that kind of loneliness.

Your Spirit never leaves me,

Even when I'm hurting,

I don't have to bear that burden on my own.

You carried all the pain and

Burried all the shame when

You made that rugged tree Your righteous throne.

Because of You I'll never walk alone.

You came here as a man

I know You understand

What it's like to walk these roads.

My problems don't compare

To that crown You had to wear

Still You take them as Your own.

Because of all the blood and tears You shed

I will never know that kind of loneliness.

Your Spirit never leaves me,

Even when I'm hurting,

I don't have to bear that burden on my own.

You carried all the pain and

Burried all the shame when

You made that rugged tree Your righteous throne.

Because of You I'll never walk alone.

You carried all the pain and

Burried all the shame when

You made that rugged tree Your righteous throne.

Because of You I'll never walk alone.

Lord, because of You I'll never walk alone.

I'll never walk alone.

The Ugliness of War

"...I hate the whole thin - the horror, the pain, the ugliness. War isn't a khaki uniform or a drill parade - everything I've read in old histories haunts me. I lie awake at night and see things that have happened - see the blood and filth and misery of it all. And a bayonet charge! If I could face the other things I could never face that. It turns me sick to think of it - sicker even to think of giving it than receiving it - to think of thrusting a bayonet through another man."

~ Walter Blythe

Pain and Death

"I don't think I'm afraid of death itself - it's of the pain that might come before death - it wouldn't be so bad to die and have it over - but to keep on dying!"

~ Walter Blythe