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BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR
(Excerpt)
Text and Music by James Sundquist
© 1979 ROCK SALT MUSIC, BMI
NOW © 2014 JAMES SUNDQUIST / EAGLE MASTERWORKS PRODUCTIONS  


I once worked at the Gatekeeper Restaurant bookstore in La Jolla, California.  It was a New Age store specializing in Theosophy.  A man there showed me his poem entitled Beautiful Lady.  It was a poem of adoration in which the woman represented wisdom.  Personification of wisdom is certainly a theme in Proverbs, in which one woman stands for wisdom.  My inspiration for this song was to write lyrics and music that adored the Person of Christ as the Savior, to contrast the wisdom (lady) of the New Age.  The Gatekeeper Restaurant no longer exists, as it was burned to the ground.  The is another famous hymn by the same title "Beautiful Savior" aka "Fairest Lord Jesus."  I wrote this song on my 12-String D-35 Martin, but later converted it to piano, and have loved singing it as a duet with my wife Karen.



BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR, LORD OF MY LIFE

WHERE ARE YOU LEADING ME, BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR?

BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR, FILL ME JOY

YOU SET ME FREE, YOU SET ME FREE

Morning light brings His song of grace

A new life in Him I will embrace

Into the day I carry my thoughts

But the world tries to tie me in knots
 
But in my heart rings softly a sound

Join with me in this song I found

Join with me in this song I've found



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