Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

Ever since I saw the new True Grit on Christmas Day I have had this hymn stuck in my head. I grew up singing Leaning On the Everlasting Arms all the time but never really paid much attention to it. They use it throughout the movie and it is the song you exit to. I have since then researched it and found out that it the verses were written by Elisha Hoffman and the chorus was added by Anthony Showalter who added them after he had heard about two of his friends losing their wives.

Not a bad song to have stuck in my head..

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain:
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms;
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.

Oh, how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way,
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
Oh, how bright the path grows from day to day,
Leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain

What have I to dread, what have I to fear,
Leaning on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near,
Leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain

These words speak for themselves