MY IRISH EYES

When I bow my head and pray to you

Tears fill my Irish eyes

All because you love me so

And for me it never dies

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You make my heart feel

Like it never felt before

You make me feel special with all the love you send

And I love you dear Saviour friend

When I lift my head to sing your praise

Smiles fill my Irish eyes

For you are my trustful friend

And the One who never lies

Chorus

You make my heart feel

Like it never felt before

You make me feel special with all the love you send

And I love you dear Saviour friend

When my head wears a crown some day

Glories fill my Irish eyes

On the far bank of the Jordan

My soul forever lies

Chorus

You make my heart feel

Like it never felt before

You make me feel special with all the love you send

And I love you dear Saviour friend

Colin Moffett

BOTTLE OF MY TEARS

I want to see the bottle Lord

You fill with all my tears

See how much you collected

Down through all the years

I am sure it’s very large

This bottle that you’ve got

For all the days I’ve lived

I seemed to have cried a lot

Have cried in fear and pain

In childhood long ago

Cried with all the memories

That still haunt and hurt me so

I have cried a lot

For myself and others too

All my tears ever shed

Are collected up by you

Have cried for love that’s lost

Cried with a broken heart

Cried with bitter sorrow

When death bids life depart

Keep the cork off its neck

For it is as my heart fears

That I am crying again

Filling the bottle of my tears

Colin Moffett

ANOTHER HILL

There’s another hill Lord

In front of my way

It has to be climbed

At its foot I cant stay

For I have to travel on

Although its sides are so steep

I’ve climbed hills so often

My soul it could weep

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It’s another hill Lord

Steeper than the last

Please help me climb it

For there is no way past

I’m weary so weary Lord

My strength it has gone

Help me once again

Just to carry on

I remember a hill  

You climbed long ago

Called Mount Calvary

Where your blood it did flow

You were so weary Lord

Yet you climbed it for me

Died for me on a cross

My soul to set free

Chorus

It’s another hill Lord

Steeper than the last

Please help me climb it

For there is no way past

I’m weary so weary Lord

My strength it has gone

Help me once again

Just to carry on

My sins made you climb it

On that dreadful day

So I trust you Lord

To help show me the way

By dying on that hill Lord

Helps me so much to see

When hills come in my way

You’ll climb them with me

 Chorus

It’s another hill Lord

Steeper than the last

Please help me climb it

For there is no way past

I’m weary so weary Lord

My strength it has gone

Help me once again

Just to carry on

Colin Moffett

MORNING STAR

A Morning Star died to let others burn
I have given off my light now its your turn
I have returned to the Heavens when first I came
Take your light of me and go shine in my Name

Darkness is around, it’s the depth of night
People stumble in the way for they have no light
Come my redeemed, ignite yourself of me
Then glow in the blackness that sinners they may see

The path that leads to glory, light its way along
Lest they stumble in blindness, footsteps going wrong
Shine brightly like lighthouses of this I implore
That none will be shipwrecked and not reach a safer shore

You are the lights of the world, you must surely burn
Shine your light on the path at every twist and turn
I have left you to do this, the beacons that you are
Lit first from me the bright and Morning Star

Colin Moffett

ONE LIVE IS GOING

One life is going ebbing fast away
Only one given to live every day
Hours are passing by, time is going fast
One life is going, a life that will not last

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One life is given but taken every day
Time is ours for now but you cannot make it stay
The clock on the wall each ticking hour is showing
Its revolving hands tell that one life is going.

One life is going time to live it now
Days that melt away disappear somehow
Filled sometimes with joy or of much sorrow
One life is going, seek not out tomorrow

Chorus

One life is going, why not live for Him
When life is gone, its end will not be grim
Life is fulfilled given to the Master
One life is going, pace is growing faster

Chorus

One life is going, going, going gone
Day is ended and there is no new dawn
A soul is called to Heaven by the Son
One life is going, eternal life begun

Chorus

Colin Moffett

HE IS CASTING HIS LASSO

He is casting His lasso way up in the sky
His rope of mercy circling in the air
Let its noose fall on you when it comes your way
For He wants to catch you in its circle there

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He is casting His lasso
Casting it for me and you
His branding iron will seal us for His own
The mark of blood is His brand
Let Him apply it with His hand
Showing all the world that you are His alone

He is casting His lasso, casts it far and wide
Only the Rancher knows where it will fall
It may come upon you, be ready to be roped
Keeping your ears open for His cattle call

Chorus

He is casting His lasso but some day no more
Will the mercy rope circle with His love
His brand marks His own who are ready to go
With the Rancher and to the great corral above

Chorus

Colin Moffett

DARE TO LOVE

Dare to love to give your heart
Prepared to have it ripped apart
Some mother’s eyes fill with tears
Unconditional love through the years

For her children, but rejected now
To repay her care they know not how
Cheating partners, man or wife
Bringing heartache and such strife

Or love and heart set upon a pet
But once gone brings more regret
Someone to love, a life to share
Only now is misery and the empty chair

Dare to love, if we only could
Harden hearts like a piece of wood
Be uncaring and unfeeling
So broken hearts will need no healing

How would it be if it were so
Love and heartache we would not know
Dare we seek a heart of stone
Care for non but ourselves alone

Not the way God had it planned
When He formed us with His hand
Dared to liken us like Him above
To have His heart for it is love

Dared to love us when sin brought fall
Give His Son for us all
Jesus Saviour, loving heart
Died on cross with arms apart

Dared to suffer for us to save
Love triumphed over the grave
No sealing in with cold hard stone
Could stop Him rising to atone

We will know joy and heartache
The heart will love, perhaps will break
But He knows its every beat
Bring it to Him, kneel at His feet

O my friend harden not your heart
Give to Him every single part
He cares for it from up above
Trust in Him and dare to love

Colin Moffett

THE ROAD

Many are the hazards on this road that I go
Unknown things are waiting around every bend
Up hills or straight or freewheeling at ease
Before this road of life it comes to an end

Times of merry journey like a sightseeing tour
To view pleasant things as onwards I go
This road is smooth and delightful to travel
How long to journey thus I just don’t know

A moment of time, so quick is the change
This road now perilous to be travelled with care
A hidden dip or a sudden curving bend
I see not the dangers that are lurking just there

Or the holes in this road to damage my carriage
Or the dry road of comfort that holds to my grip
Turns in an instance to one of great danger
And I to my death seem certain to slip

Joyous thoughts turn to screams of the mind
Panic and fear ride with me as I lose control
Nothing can I do in the events that are unfolding
I leave it in His hands the keeper of my soul

There is mercy for me in times like these
I have travelled so far but it’s not journey’s end
He lifts me from the ditch, wipes away my tears
Along this road to travel again He does send

For He has mapped out the distance that I will go
Gave to me His Holy Word for my highway code
Promised never to leave me in this journey of life
His hand holding mine as we travel down this road

Colin Moffett

A HARVEST THANK YOU

Autumn mists creep across the fields
To labouring hands giving up their yields
Of maize and corn, potatoes, wheat
And all other crops good to eat
The fruit that decked the leafy bough
Are gathered in the harvest now

Of bounty now of land and sea
We come O Lord to give thanks to thee
You promised a time for sowing seed
A time of harvest to supply our need
To nourish the body you let us know
We would reap what we did sow

Give we thanks Lord, to you our praise
For the bountiful harvest that you did raise
For we know Lord in faith we planted
But for this yield it was you who granted
So mighty God all that’s left to do
Is to give you the glory with a Harvest thank you

Colin Moffett

THE BILLOWS ROLL OVER MY SOUL

The billows roll over my soul
It’s tossed about in the angry waves
But they cannot shock the solid Rock
Of the One who eternally saves

I am anchored tight in the storms of night
To the One who will not move
Battered in the storm of the billows that form
But His steadfastness to me He will prove

My ship it falters in the raging of the waters
It shudders with groaning to break apart
But I am anchored fast in the awful blast
And He brings such calmness to my heart

The lightings flash, the waves would dash
To sink in the depth faith’s feeble boat
But the anchor chain it will remain
And the hand of God keeps my soul afloat

Rage white foam but I am heading home
In the distance beckons the golden shore
Though the spiteful gale tears at my sail
He still guides my ship with His mighty oar

The billows roll over my soul
But soon the angry storms will calm
Though they did test, God’s harbour of rest
Is the place you will find I am

Colin Moffett