The Lord Is the Joy of My Life
The Lord is the joy of my life, I shall never be bored.
He brings me into the fellowship of happy friends.
He gives me ecstatic confidence;
He enchants my soul.
He leads me in the way of jubilance for His own great praise.
Yea though I struggle through the experience of gloom
I will fear no sadness; the joy of the Lord is with me;
Thy grace and Thy cheer, they delight me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of the prophets of gloom.
Thou anointest my head with gladness.
My heart bubbles over with joy.
Surely delight and rapture shall follow me all the days of my life;
And I shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord always.
-Earl Chadwick Carver
‘The Lord is the Joy of My Life’ is a parody, or imitation, of the Twenty-third Psalm in the ‘Book of Psalms’ found in the Old Testament of the Christian “Bible.”
The Lord is the joy of my life, I shall never be bored.
He brings me into the fellowship of happy friends.
He gives me ecstatic confidence;
He enchants my soul.
He leads me in the way of jubilance for His own great praise.
Yea though I struggle through the experience of gloom
I will fear no sadness; the joy of the Lord is with me;
Thy grace and Thy cheer, they delight me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of the prophets of gloom.
Thou anointest my head with gladness.
My heart bubbles over with joy.
Surely delight and rapture shall follow me all the days of my life;
And I shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord always.
-Earl Chadwick Carver
‘The Lord is the Joy of My Life’ is a parody, or imitation, of the Twenty-third Psalm in the ‘Book of Psalms’ found in the Old Testament of the Christian “Bible.”
