WALKING ON THE WATER TOWARD YOU NOW

Recently on Facebook folks have been talking about raising money for churches by letting people pay to block a particular hymn from worship, for a year, or paying to get a particular hymn included in worship.

I have been clearing stuff off my computer so my daughters won’t have to go through it when I die to decide if it’s something they need. Save them some time and trouble. In the process I came across this hymn I wrote. It’s not very good poetry—although it could be improved if I ever had the patience to edit or use a thesaurus--and you have to furnish your own music, but I like the idea, especially the last verse. Sunday is Stewardship Day at our church, and I think I can raise some $ by offering not to sing this…

SOMEONE’S WALKING ON THE WATER TOWARD YOU NOW

I was washed off by a fierce and evil wave

I was sure the ocean deep would be my grave

Without a single friend, I knew it was the end

Then I heard a voice shout out against the wind

Don’t give up. Keep holding on

Until the darkness ends and night is gone

The current is so fast, you think you cannot last

But someone’s walking on the water toward you now

Two arms full of water was all that I could grasp

A gurgling cry for help was all that I could gasp

Then a hand within the darkness pulled me to a drifting mast

And I heard a voice call in the storm so vast

Don’t give up. Keep holding on

Until the darkness ends and night is gone

The current is so fast, you think you cannot last

But someone’s walking on the water toward you now

When light came with the dawning and the darkness was all past

I looked on every side to see who had pulled me to the mast

There was no one close at hand but in the distance I could see

Someone going toward a sailor just like me

And I called…

Don’t give up. Keep holding on

Until the darkness ends and night is gone

The current is so fast, you think you cannot last

But someone’s walking on the water toward you now

John Robert McFarland

Please note that I am not writing again, since this was done so long ago it even had time to get lost in the crevices of my computer.