"I Will Walk (Psalm 116)" is a contemporary Psalm setting for the 2nd Sunday of Lent, Year B. The gentle, contemplative arrangement of the Psalm’s theme also makes the piece fitting for funerals. I finalized the setting of “I Will Walk” while my sister, Trish, was suffering stage four cancer. Played at her funeral Mass, “I Will Walk” is dedicated to Patricia Ann Walton, October 5, 1958 – June 17, 2011.

Music by Greg Walton

Refrain text © 1969, 1981, 1997, ICEL. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Verses’ text © 1970, 1997, 1998, CCD. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Music © 2010, Greg Walton. Published by JesusGlue Ministries, Inc. (Admin. by Music Services, Franklin, TN, musicservices.org). All rights reserved.

Lyrics

I Will walk be fore the Lord
Before the Lord
Before the Lord
In the land of the living

I Will walk be fore the Lord
Before the Lord
Before the Lord
In the land of the living

1. I believed even when I said.
“I am greatly afflicted
Precious in the eyes of the LORD
Is the death of his faithful ones

I Will walk be fore the Lord
Before the Lord
Before the Lord
In the land of the living

2. O LORD, I am your servant:
I am your servant
The son of your handmaid:
You have loosed my bonds
To you will I offer sacrifice
Of thanksgiving
And I will call upon the name of the LORD.

I Will walk be fore the Lord
Before the Lord
Before the Lord
In the land of the living

3. My vows to the LORD I will pay
In the presence of all his people,
In the courts of the house of the LORD,
In your midst O Jerusalem.

I Will walk be fore the Lord
Before the Lord
Before the Lord
In the land of the living

I Will walk be fore the Lord
Before the Lord
Before the Lord
In the land of the living
In the land of the living