Come and journey with a Saviour
Come and journey with a Saviour. T. Herbert O'Driscoll* (1928-2024).
In his hymn notes (in Praise, My Soul) O’Driscoll recalled a teaching of Dag Hammarskjṏld, second Secretary General of the United Nations (1953-61), that ‘The longest journey is the journey inwards’. The hymn writer/priest commented: ‘true as long as the whole of one’s journey is not inward. A healthy spirituality also hears a call to journey outward and upwards. Above all is the call to journey, so that one’s spirituality is one of life long growing and maturing’ (p. 77).
Written in 1985, the hymn urges singers to ‘journey outward, … where injustice and where hunger and the poor call us to share.’ The refrain, which...
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