"All the promises of God…" 2 Corinthians 1:20
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Words & Music: Natalie Allyn Wakeley Sleeth, 1986
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…pondering the death of a friend (life and death, death and resurrection), pondering winter and spring (seeming opposites), and a T. S. Eliot poem which had the phrase, 'In our end is our beginning.' These seemingly contradictory 'pairs' led to the thesis of the song and the hopeful message that out of one will come the other whenever God chooses to bring that about.
Her husband, Dr. Ronald Sleeth, heard Hymn of Promise shortly before he died, and asked that it be sung at his funeral.
HYMN OF PROMISE
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