More Love to Thee

 

I am currently reading the book, Stepping Heavenward, by Elizabeth Prentiss, and it is so good!  You wouldn't think a book written almost 150 years ago would still be relevant today but people have always been people, and the same struggles that the fictional Katy Elliot faced throughout her life in the 1800s still face me.  The book is written as Katy's journal, and it is so real.  I would highly recommend it.

 

 

This is a drawing of Elizabeth Prentiss.  Besides the book Stepping Heavenward, she is also the author of the well known hymn, More Love to Thee.  She wrote these words after nearly losing her daughter because of an illness.

 

"More love to Thee, O Christ, more love to Thee!

Hear Thou the prayer I make on bended knee.

This is my earnest plea: More love, O Christ, to Thee,

More love to Thee, more love to Thee!"

 

"Once earthly joy I craved, sought peace and rest;

Now Thee alone I seek; give what is best.

This all my prayer shall be: More love, O Christ, to Thee,

More love to Thee, more love to Thee!"

 

"Then shall my latest breath whisper Thy praise;

This be the parting cry my heart shall raise.

This still its prayer shall be: More love, O Christ, to Thee,

More love to Thee, more love to Thee!"

 

This is my prayer as well!

 

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