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