As I come upon my parent’s anniversary, my thoughts sometimes linger back to when I was a child. We would visit grandpa’s farm, in my dad’s old blue pick-up truck, which he named Beulah. In a deep, rich bass, he would sing a hymn that has become a favorite of mine, and it would forever influence the way I would see my role as a keeper of God’s light.
Brightly beams our Father’s mercy from his lighthouse evermore
But to us he gives the keeping of the lights along the shore
Let the lower lights be burning, send a gleam across the wave
Some poor fainting struggling seaman, you may rescue you may save
Dark the night of sin has settled loud the angry billows roar
Eager eyes are watching longing for the lights along the shore
Let the lower lights be burning, send a gleam across the wave
Some poor fainting struggling seaman, you may rescue you may save
Trim your feeble lamp my brother, some poor sailor tempest tossed
Trying now to make the harbor in the darkness may be lost
Let the lower lights be burning, send a gleam across the wave
Some poor fainting struggling seaman, you may rescue you may save
Matt. 5:16: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.