(My apologies for not posting every day of the Easter season. There are plenty of great songs, but 50 days of continuous posting is a bit more than I can find the time to do well)
I woke up with the chorus of this song in my head. Here is the hymn page with all the verses and a recorded version with some fine guitar picking in it.
If you want to just sing the chorus over and over, join along with this congregation. I Need Thee - Don Moen
Annie S. Hawks wrote the words to “I Need Thee” in 1872. Her pastor, Rev. Robert Lowry, composed the music and added the repeating chorus. I wonder if we would know the song without the chorus - it is the most powerful part.
Wikipedia quotes Ms. Hawks about her mood when she wrote the song - "For myself, the hymn was prophetic rather than expressive of my own experiences, for it was wafted out to the world on the wings of love and joy, instead of under the stress of personal sorrow."
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