My mother loved this prayer. A copy of it hung on the south wall of the “front room” in the our farm house during the 1950s. I can still hear Perry Como singing it on our black and white television set.
Bless this house, O Lord we pray,
Make it safe by night and day . . .
Bless these walls so firm and stout,
Keeping want and trouble out . . .
Bless the roof and chimneys tall,
Let thy peace lie overall . . .
Bless this door that it may prove,
Ever open,
To joy and love . . .
Bless these windows shining bright,
Letting in God’s Heavenly light,
Bless the hearth, ablazing there,
With smoke ascending like a prayer!
Bless the people here within,
Keep them pure and free from sin . . .
Bless us all that we may be,
Fit O Lord to dwell with thee . . .
Bless us all that one day we may dwell,
O Lord! With Thee!
(Words and Music by Helen Taylor
and May H. Morgan ( a.k.a. Brahe ), 1927)
Do you remember something unusual on the walls of your childhood home?