Saturday Psalm and Praise

Hello and I hope you’re all having a good week!  Today I got my first secret sister surprise and I am very happy to have received it.  My SP&P is actually about the song that is on the bookmark, pictured in the post below, Softly and Tenderly.  This song was written by Will. L Thompson in 1847-1909.  Thompson’s ambition was to write music for the people.  After years of success writing gospel hymns.  Later he opened his own music store and became a thriving music publisher in Chicago.  Though quite affluent due to his great success in the music world, he was known as a kind, unpretentious Christian gentleman.  He was also known for travelling from one small town to another in horse and buggy singing his songs for appreciative audiences.  Thompson was a close personal friend of renowned D. L. Moody.  On Moody’s deathbed, he whispered, “Will, I would rather have written Softly and Tenderly than anything I have been able to do in my whole life.”

Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, calling for you and for me; 	see, on the portals he's waiting and watching, watching for you and for me. 

Come home, come home; 	ye who are weary come home; 	earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, 	calling, O sinner, come home! 

	Why should we tary when Jesus is pleading, 	pleading for you and for me? 	Why should we linger and heed not his mercies, 	mercies for you and for me? 

	Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing, 	passing from you and from me; 	shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming, 	coming for you and for me. 

	O for the wonderful love he has promised, 	promised for you and for me! 	Though we have sinned, he has mercy and pardon, 	pardon for you and for me. 

Have a blessed day!