My Faith Looks Up To Thee

This well-known hymn was written by Ray Palmer, considered to be one of America’s best-known hymn writers from the 1800s. 

 The creative process brings us very close to the Creator. Anyone who paints or writes music or poetry or stories can attest that sometimes they take time. Other times it is as if another spirit is pouring through us something special, something otherworldly.

When Ray Palmer wrote this hymn he was fresh from college. It was 1830. He said this about the song’s composition: “ I gave form to what I felt, by writing, with little effort, the stand says. I recollect I wrote them with very tender emotion and ended the last line with tears.”

The Lord promises that He will send His Holy Spirit to be with us, to comfort us.

In Greek mythology, the Nine Muses were nine goddesses who symbolized the Arts and Sciences.

 We can all surely test that there are only two sources of inspiration for our creativity.

The effect of the art or creation on those who experience it clearly can show all who the author and inspiration truly were. 

https://hymnary.org/text/my_faith_looks_up_to_thee

https://hymnary.org/text/my_faith_looks_up_to_thee#Author

https://www.joniandfriends.org/my-faith-looks-up-to-thee/ 

https://hymnary.org/person/Palmer_Ray 

“Behold, He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.”
Revelation 1:7