If the path I travel

If the path I travel

Lead me to the cross

If the way Thou choosest

Lead to pain and loss

Let the compensation

Daily

hourly

be

Shadowless communion

Blessed Lord

with Thee.

If there’s less of earth joy

Give

Lord

more of heaven.

Let the spirit praise Thee

Though the heart be riven;

If sweet earthly ties

Lord

Break at Thy decree

Let the tie that binds us

Closer

sweeter

be.

Lonely though the pathway

Cheer it with Thy smile;

Be Thou my companion

Through earth’s little while;

Selfless may I live

Lord

By Thy grace to be

Just a cleansed channel

For Thy life through me.