Catholic Funeral Songs: You Are Near

GC 604 - Dan Schutte

Refrain:

O Lord, I know you are near,

standing always at my side.

You guard me from the foe,

and you lead me in ways everlasting.

Verse 1

Lord, you have searched my heart,

and you know when I sit and when I stand.

Your hand is upon me protecting me from death,

keeping me from harm.

Verse 2

Where can I run from your love?

If I climb to the heavens you are there;

if I fly to the sunrise or sail beyond the sea,

still I'd find you there.

Verse 3

You know my heart and its ways,

you who formed me before I was born

in the secret of darkness before

I saw the sun in my mother's womb.

Verse 4

Marvelous to me are your works;

how profound are your thoughts, my Lord.

Even if I could count them, they number as the stars,

you would still be there.

Text: Psalm 139; Dan Schutte, b.1947,