k.d. doherty~ Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

I love the old Hymns. The older, the better. This beautiful and classic hymn was written in 1918. I went to bed on Thursday night, wrestling over which song to record next. I awoke at 6 a.m. the next morning with this song running through my head. I hadn't heard it in years, but the chorus kept playing over and over in my mind...."Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face. And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace." I knew right then, that this was the next song that I would record. https://www.facebook.com/KDSongs http://youtu.be/Y0y4TsejEBc Written in 1918 by Helen Howarth Lemmel. She had written over 500 hymns and poems.When she became blind her husband abandoned her, which was just one of the many heartaches Helen struggled with during midlife. One day, in 1918, when Helen was aged 55, a missionary friend gave her a tract entitled "Focused". It contained a statement that had a profound impact on her. “So then, turn your eyes upon Him, look full into His face and you will find that the things of earth will acquire a strange new dimness.” “I stood still, ” Helen recalled, “and singing in my soul and spirit was the chorus, with not one conscious moment of putting word to word to make rhyme, or note to note to make melody." The verses were written the same week.