Sincerely Yours
Saturday night during my drive home from visiting Paula, I was listening to a Christan radio show called From the Archives which played older Christian music. A song called Sincerely Yours by Gary Chapman in 1987 stood out to me enough for me to go through the trouble of tracking down a copy of its lyrics online. The song is about a person who writes a letter to God and realizes that living life can be viewed as writing a letter to God. I find it especially interesting that it was sparked upon evaluating his prayers that increased his desire to live his life for God to keep and never throw away. So maybe there is something more to the practice of writing out one’s prayers from time to time to be reviewed at a later date.
Sincerely Yours
Gary Chapman
Lord, I take my pen to write to You a letter,
Knowing even now You know what’s on my mind;
But I think perhaps it might make me feel better
If I see myself here written in a line.
And as I close I see a phrase I took for granted,
It leaps out as I see it written there;
And as the truth of it begins to become planted,
Those two words have now become my heart-felt prayer.
Sincerely Yours,
Lord, I sign my life to You, Sincerely Yours.
With a strong and honest wish to be the best that I can be at what I am,
Without a thought for me, Lord, teach me now to be
Sincerely Yours,
Without a proud or selfish line, Sincerely Yours.
Now until there is no time, please make my life become a letter You can keep
And never throw away
I’ll write it till the day I become
Sincerely Yours.
