The Paths You Tread Tomorrow
I wrote this song many years ago in 1980. I was at University towards the end of my studies and I was feeling rather depressed and very lonely. Life seemed very bleak and difficult. I could not find a job and a relationship had ended badly. However I did not just write this song for myself. Even at the time I knew that many others were worse off than me and I wrote the song to help comfort anyone feeling bad. Interestingly, in 1980 I was not ready to receive Jesus into my life and the chorus written in 1980 did not mention prayer or God. It read:
Just smile and shed a tear
And wait patiently
And on the paths you tread tomorrow
You will find what you need.
In 2008, 28 years later, and after I had found Jesus, I wrote the present chorus and it is the final version that makes this song the prayer it always was at heart. At the time I wrote the song, I was not ready to pray in the song, but now I am.
Eileen Pearson, October 2009
THE PATHS YOU TREAD TOMORROW
Have hope in your heart
And don’t hang your weary head.
Though the tears brim in your eyes
And you cannot see ahead.Chorus:
Just whisper, Father God, I pray to you
Please walk along with me.
And on the paths you tread tomorrow
He will give the help you need.Though the way is steep
And has, it seems, no end.
Though your dreams lie in shatters
And there’s no way they’ll mend.Though you miss your step
And land face in the dust,
There’s no matter if you rise
And go on indeed you must!Although through the dark
You wander all alone,
Somewhere along the wayside
You’ll find a friend to call your own.