“The Road Winds Ever On" Original Hymn (Spirit, Change, Journey)
“The Road Winds Ever On" Original Hymn (Spirit, Change, Journey)
DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC DOWNLOAD
This hymn, originally written for the Words for the Beginning bundle for Advent 2024, is created for use in congregational worship and other ministry contexts. We’ve set fresh words of faith to a well-loved public domain hymn tune for maximum singability.
License for congregational use is included in the purchase—no reporting to CCLI or other licensing agencies is required. To inquire about other uses, such as recording or publishing, please contact us.
“The Road Winds Ever On”
Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM (“Of the Father’s Love Begotten”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2024
Music: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
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Lyrics:
The Road Winds Ever On
Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM (“Of the Father’s Love Begotten”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2024
Music: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
Fears of straying from the pathway
Planted deep in childhood
Come to haunt us when the road ends
And the way ahead is obscured
Then the Spirit wraps around us
To protect and reassure
And the road winds ever on
All our best laid plans can shatter
Leaving us to mourn the loss
Of the future we imagined
And feel like our life is on pause
At the edge the Spirit’s waiting
There to ferry us across
And the road winds ever on
A world constantly in motion
Evades our attempts to know
What may be around the corner
Or where any road will go
So the Spirit stirs within us
To be carried by the flow
And the road winds ever on
credit info:
Hymn text by Rev. Anna Strickland | A Sanctified Art, LLC | sanctifiedart.org
