Author of Our Hope

Words: Daryle Worley, III, 2025; Tune: HYFRYDOL, Public Domain.
First shared December 7, 2025

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1. May our Father and the Author
Of our hope, come fill our souls
With all joy He has to offer
May His peace, our hearts console
Fill us that we live believing,
By the Holy Spirit’s pow’r
In His hope always abounding
To the praise of Christ, the Son

2. Lord, Your saints are poor and needy
Longing for the rest You give
Rest from grief, despair, oppression
Rest from guilt, from shame, and sin
Some are anxious for tomorrow
Striving in their fear and gloom
Some are wading in their sorrow
Wrestling with their hope in You

3. Some are slave to every craving
Some are bitter, hard as stone
Some are wrapped up in their treasure
Some are tired of faithful love
All Your saints are poor and needy
Learning how to strive, to live
In Your hope always abounding
In the heav’nly rest You give

4. God our Father and the Author
Of our hope, come fill our souls
With all joy You have to offer
With Your peace, our hearts console
Fill us that we live believing
By the Holy Spirit’s pow’r
In Your hope always abounding
To the praise of Christ, Your Son