1. Not now but in the coming years,
It may be in the better land,
We’ll read the meaning of our tears,
And there, sometime, we’ll understand.
Then trust in God through all thy days;
Fear not, for he doth hold thy hand;
Though dark thy way still sing and praise;
Sometime, sometime we’ll understand.
2. We’ll catch the broken threads again
And finish what we here began;
Heav’n will the mysteries explain,
And then, ah, then we’ll understand.
Then trust in God through all thy days;
Fear not, for he doth hold thy hand;
Though dark thy way still sing and praise;
Sometime, sometime we’ll understand.
3. We’ll know why clouds instead of sun
Were over many a cherished plan;
Why song has ceased when scarce begun;
’Tis there, sometime, we’ll understand.
Then trust in God through all thy days;
Fear not, for he doth hold thy hand;
Though dark thy way still sing and praise;
Sometime, sometime we’ll understand.
4. Why what we longed for most of all
Eludes so oft our eager hand,
Why hopes are crushed and castles fall;
Up there, sometime we’ll understand.
Then trust in God through all thy days;
Fear not, for he doth hold thy hand;
Though dark thy way still sing and praise;
Sometime, sometime we’ll understand.
5. God knows the way; he holds the key;
He guides us with unerring hand;
Sometime with tearless eyes we’ll see;
Yes, there, up there we’ll understand.
Then trust in God through all thy days;
Fear not, for he doth hold thy hand;
Though dark thy way still sing and praise;
Sometime, sometime we’ll understand.