It's a Beautiful Day!
It's a beautiful day! These are the words
I heard at the edge of dawn.
And waking, I tried to fathom out why
This inner glow and this song
Enfolding me, lifting me, leaving my cares
Like a mantle discarded and torn?
Then I remembered! What cause to rejoice!
Why I am a sinner reborn!
It's a beautiful day! Though clouds may arise,
No Christian is ever alone.
Though "penniless, poor and rejected of men,"
We're heirs and joint-heirs to a throne!
It's a beautiful day! Christ dwelling within,
Let me walk with a conqueror's tread,
Just doing His will! It's a beautiful day!
And Heaven is just ahead!
--Alice Hansche Mortenson
