How Great Thou Art

The church we’ve been attending has a wonderful worship program, with a complete band and mostly contemporary music. However, this morning we sang this familiar hymn and it was so beautiful and touching to me. For the first time I really listened to the words and they were very powerful to me today; perhaps because I’ve been spending so much time in nature lately. When I went home and looked up the lyrics to post here, I found out that it is based on a poem written by a Swedish man name Carl Gustav Boberg in 1885, and the melody is a Swedish folk song. I guess it was my Swedish roots coming to surface.
At any rate, I’m so, so blessed. We all are.

O Lord my God,
When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds
Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars,
I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout
The universe displayed.

Then sings my soul,
My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art,
How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul,
My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art,
How great Thou art!

When through the woods,
And forest glades I wander,
And hear the birds
Sing sweetly in the trees.
When I look down,
From lofty mountain grandeur
And see the brook,
And feel the gentle breeze.

Then sings my soul,
My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art,
How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul,
My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art,
How great Thou art!

And when I think, that God,
His Son not sparing;
Sent him to die,
I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross,
My burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died
To take away my sin.

Then sings my soul,
My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art,
How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul,
My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art,
How great Thou art!

When Christ shall come,
With shout of acclamation,
And take me home,
What joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow,
In humble adoration,
And then proclaim:
"My God, how great Thou art!"

-Katy