I want to walk as a child of the light

I want to walk as a child of the light. Kathleen A. Thomerson* (1934- ). Written in 1966, during a heat wave and an air strike at St Louis, where she lived at the time. Her mother was staying with her, and had to be driven back to Houston, Texas; Kathleen remembered her friends at the Church of the Redeemer there, and ‘it was at that point that I started hearing the words and melody of this hymn’. The full story was told to Raymond F. Glover, editor of The Hymnal 1982 Companion and is reproduced there (Volume 3B, p. 920). The hymn was finished at Houston, and sung at the Church of the Redeemer later in the summer. It was published in Sound of Living Waters (1974), and it has subsequently...