Take My Hand

Take My Hand, a SATB choral arrangement with music by Kathleen Holyoak, is an especially beautiful title relating to the theme of service: helping and lifting others and a wonderful choice for any worship service.  This title is also available in a SSA arrangement and includes a violin obbligato. Follow the words as you listen:

When I reach to help another,

When I seek to take their part,

I can feel the love of heaven

Settle gently in my heart.

With these hands to offer mercy

I help wipe away each care,

As I bend to lift another

From despair, from despair.

Take my hand, take my hand,

I will lift you come what may.

With faith the Lord, our loving Lord,

With faith that He will always show the way.

We are sent to render comfort and to

Pray for those who mourn,

And bring the gospel radiance

To each friend who is forlorn;

To lift them in their weakness

With help from heav’n above,

And walk with them and talk with them

Until they feel God’s love.

When I see a person suff’ring

From a loss or from a need,

When a neighbor seeks my comfort

And I hasten to pay heed.

Then the Holy Spirit guides me,

Shedding light along the way,

As I’m reaching out to others

Day by day, day by day.

Take my hand, take my hand,

I will keep you come what may.

Come walk with me until you see

Our Savior’s arms are always open wide.

Take my hand, take my hand.

Copyright 2012 by Lawrence Lee