This I will choose

This I will choose: Your Kingdom and Your love,

Above all other gain, all other choice.

This I will choose: the loss that finds in You

A fairer beauty where I can rejoice.

This I will choose: to leave the clamoured path

For the dear stillness of another way,

The silence where Your love speaks loud to me,

And tells me what no dollar sign can say.

This I will choose: this learning to forgive,

To lay aside all vengeance rightly mine,

Submitted to the mercy of your cross,

The grace that is my daily bread and wine.

This I will choose: this best first precious thing,

This love that holds me, and will ever hold,

Safe in Your nail-pierced hands, till worlds shall cease,

To love and be loved still in realms untold.