The Darkness Deepens

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We've all been here before: It's the end of October, days are getting shorter and shorter, and next week is the time change! Suddenly, it will be nearly dark at 5:30. I never get used it. 

But tonight I decided to light a candle, make some tea, and listen to a beautiful song. So I share that song with you. If you don't know the tune, you can Youtube it. Better yet, find a hymnal and pick it on the piano or guitar. 

However you choose to experience the song, I hope you're comforted by the assurance that, in all the changes of life, He who does not change is right there with you.           

     Abide With Me

1. Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
   The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;
   When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
   Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me.
2. Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
   Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
   Change and decay in all around I see—
   O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
3. I need Thy presence every passing hour;
   What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s pow’r?
   Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?
   Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.
4. I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;
   Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness;
   Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
   I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.
5. Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
   Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies;
   Heav’n’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
   In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.
6. Henry F. Lyte, 1847