O God, dear God, lay open wide my heart,  
teach me to hope, to trust, to love anew.  
I have not seen You, yet I walk with You,  
let Your light through the dark make plain my road.

I sought a foothold in the world's vain whirl,  
I fell, I rose, again I walked the dark.  
But on all roads, amid the crowd's conceit,  
You alone remained in the deep unending part…

O God, dear God, do You hear how I call?  
I walk through wind, through blizzard and through snow.  
My road is lonely, and my step half-dead,  
yet in my soul a hope, like living April, glows.

I sought my comfort in the noise of earthly days,  
in glory and in plenty, in shameless power's gleam.  
My heart was freezing in the soul's own cold,  
and that flame I chased then gave no warmth, no dream…

O God, dear God, pour radiance on my sight,  
light up my paths, grant me to see through gloom.  
I have not seen You, yet You are life's last shore,

let my road be walked in purity and bloom.

I bowed down low before the thunderheads,  
I drank the world's deceit and bitterness from the cup,  
but in the dark of night a ray broke through to me —  
unearthly light, which only You hold up…

O God, dear God, give ear unto my voice,  
I walk through time, through fear and through my pain.  
You alone light up the heights for me,  
You alone burn on through the dusky winds, and stay.

I “found” my answers in a world of empty air,  
I fell and wandered through the lies and dark.  
But in You alone I found the light of dream,  
the eternal road, the joy — that too is who You are…

O God, dear God, lay open wide my soul,  
grant me in Your own radiance to find rest.  
I will pass through the shadows, let it burn within —  
the little flame of the holy, shining quest.

I sought a foothold in the mortal voices' din,  
I heard the earthly noise — I did not find You there.  
But in the hush of prayer, in the eternal skies,  
You sound like love, like the light of being, everywhere…

O God, dear God, my heart has risen anew,  
all worldly shadows have sunk into the dark.  
I sought for answers, I longed for miracles,  
but in Your love I came upon the spring.

In hours of suffering You were with me unseen,  
in days of my unrest You did not leave my side.  
Now I am risen, in my heart a sacred light  
has lit the road of the eternal height…

O God, dear God, to You I give my all,  
Your light is in my heart forever, undimmed, alive.  
And with You now I go, no longer lost,  
in Your eternity, in Light, I am reborn!!!
