Welcome to Daily SPARC – each weekday our chaplains, friends from the Penn Religious Communities Council and other voices from campus will be posting messages of support and encouragement.
Today’s message includes hymn and scripture shared by Stanley Williams, Pastor for the UPenn student group God’s Property:
How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a strange land? (Psalm 137:4 – KJV)
Why should I feel discouraged,
Why should the shadows come,
Why should my heart be lonely,
And long for heaven and home;
When Jesus is my portion?
My constant Friend is He:
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.
Let not your heart be troubled,
His tender word I hear,
And resting on His goodness,
I lose my doubts and fears
Though by the path He leadeth,
But one step I may see;
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me,
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.
When ever I am tempted,
When ever clouds arise,
When songs give place to sighing
When hope within me dies,
I draw the closer to Him,
From care He sets me free;
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me,
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.
I sing because I’m happy
I sing because I’m free;
For His eye is on the sparrow
And I know He watches me.
Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.
- African Proverb
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