O for a heart of calm repose
Amid the world's loud roar,
A life that like a river flows
Along a peaceful shore!

Come, Holy Spirit, still my heart
With gentleness divine;
Indwelling peace Thou canst impart:
O make that blessing mine!

Above these scenes of storm and strife
There spreads a region fair:
Give me to live that higher life
And breathe that heavenly air.

Come, Holy Spirit, breathe that peace,
That victory make me win;
Then shall my soul her conflict cease
And find a heaven within.

Author Unknown

Copied from my grandmother’s hymnal, Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South: Nashville, TN, 1901, Hymn 420.

Note: This hymn is in the public domain. Also, the hymns in this hymnal are not titled. So when I do not know the hymn, I generally use the first line as the title.

Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6-7

Photo taken in Milton, FL, 2021

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