"Sweet Beulah Land"

For our special music this morning, Pastor Renee Ford sang a song “Sweet Beulah Land.” Pastor Renee recently officiated a funeral for a lady who requested this song be sung at her funeral.

Pastor Renee said she has been thinking about the words since the funeral and wanted to share with us this morning.

 

The words are beautiful and touching. The song was written and composed by Squire Parsons in 1973.

 

 Listen to Carroll Robinson sing the song.

 “Sweet Beulah Land”

I'm kind of homesick for a country
To which I've never been before.
No sad goodbyes will there be spoken
For time won't matter anymore.

I'm looking now, just across the river
To where my faith, shall end in sight (Shall end in sight)
There's just a few more days to labor.
Then I will take my heavenly flight.

Chorus:

Beulah Land (Beulah Land) I'm longing for you (I'm longing for you)
And some day (And some day) on thee I'll stand (Someday we will stand)
There my home (There my home) shall be eternal (Eternal)
Beulah Land, sweet Beulah Land

Pastor Renee Ford is the pastor for Grays United Methodist Church, Houserville House of Hope, and Woodycrest United Methodist Church. She is also an Instructional Designer for the Department of eLearning Design and Innovation Group in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State.