Not now, but in the coming years

Not now

but in the coming years

It may be when with Christ we stand

We’ll read the meaning of our tears

And there

sometime

we’ll understand.

Then trust in God through all thy days;

Fear not

for He doth hold thy hand;

Though dark thy way

still sing and praise

Sometime

sometime

we’ll understand.

We’ll catch the broken thread again

And finish what we here began;

God will the mysteries explain

And then

ah

then

we’ll understand.

We’ll know why clouds instead of sun

Were over many a cherished plan;

Why song has ceased when scarce begun;

’Tis then

sometime

we’ll understand.

Why what we long for most of all

Eludes so oft our eager hand;

Why hopes are crushed and castles fall

Till then

sometime

we’ll understand.

God knows the way

He holds the key

He guides us with unerring hand;

Sometime with tearless eyes we’ll see;

Yes

then

’tis then

we’ll understand.