No 83 in As One Voice: the Next Generation is John Coleman’s “Jesus with Me”. I’m pretty sure I heard him sing this at the AOV conference last year. Another slow meditation, it is absolutely wonderful, but because the first two verses are sung freely I can’t get that feel with BIAB so I’ve just done my own arrangement, which will have to do. Listen to the CD if you get a chance, or listen to it on bandcamp.
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Jesus with me, always with me.
Ever near me, always with me.
Verse 1
The Jesus who feeds the hungry and tired,
Jesus feed my family and I
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Verse 2
The Jesus who hungered, was tortured and died,
Is the Jesus who rose on Eastertide.
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Verse 3
Just as the spearpoint enters the side,
There is Jesus – incoming tide.
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Verse 4
The Jesus who gave the blind man his sight,
To your presence, open our eyes.
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© John Coleman 1998.