Blott en dag [English translation]

Day by day, and with each passing moment,

Strength I find to meet my trials here.

Trusting in my Father’s wise bestowment, I’ve no cause to worry or to fear.

He whose heart is kind beyond all measure

Gives unto each day what He deems best

Lovingly: its part of pain and pleasure,

Mingling toil with peace and rest.

Ev’ry day the Lord himself is near me

With a special mercy for each hour;

All my cares He fain would bear and cheer me,

He whose name is Counselor and Pow’r.

The protection of His child and treasure

Is a charge that on Himself He laid.

“As thy days, thy strength shall be in measure,”

This the pledge to me He made.

Help me then in ev’ry tribulation

So to trust Thy promises, O Lord,

That I lose not faith’s sweet consolation

Offered me within Thy holy Word.

Help me, Lord, when toil and trouble meeting,

E’er to take, as from a father’s hand,

One by one, the days, the moments, fleeting

Till I reach the promised land.