Open the eyes of my heart
Open the eyes of my heart. Paul Baloche* (1962– ).
‘Open the eyes of my heart’ (1997) is the most recorded and sung congregational song by Paul Baloche. Disseminated primarily through recordings, it appears in Spanish (‘Abre mis ojos, oh Cristo’) and English in more than ten hymnals and supplements. Baloche included the song on the album Open the Eyes of My Heart (2000).
The composer participated in the spiritual discipline of journaling. Though not considering himself a songwriter in his earlier days, he started to set some of his journaled prayers to music. Ephesians 1:18 led to the composition of ‘Open the eyes of my heart’: ‘The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye...
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