My Mother's Faith

My mother's arms would hold us tight

She whispered Lord keep them tonight

And so did we sleep sound and safe

It must have been my mother's faith

Morning would call the sun to rise

And open sweetly slumbering eyes

She prayed Lord keep them on their way

He held us in my mother's faith

My mother's faith was wrapped about us

Like the softest down of winter

And when the raging winds had found us

As in her arms we ever stayed

At evenin' time dusk o'er the field

Reluctant moon and stars revealed

She thanked him well as through the day

As certain as my mother's faith

My mother's faith could move a mountain

And was deep as any ocean

But to keep safe those gathered round her

This was the greatest gift she gave

When summer turned and we had grown

Her passing called us woeful home

I kissed her then as there she lay

And now I know my mother's faith

And so does she sleep sound and safe

It must have been my mother's faith