One such artist is Kid Quill who is no exception.

It might be that, like John the Baptist, he spoke our against the infidelity of some powerful person who instead decided to have him confined because I am finding it difficult to believe that the depth of the words of that song could not have come from insanity.Nowadays it’s not hard to find young aspiring artists working hard to get their name out there. It might be that this man has had a high revelation of God. I want to read id and appreciate his condition because the sons of darkness do tend to find others guilty or sick when they do not conform to their ways of doing things. Please whoever has more information about that would be mental patient who authored this song, share it with me. I am sure if they had their way, they would have locked me in a mental institution and threw away the keys. that brings me to the question, was the author of this song truly insane? I am asking because, my accusers have turned around to label me insane because of my reacting to their in-humanness. Like the mental asylum patient who wrote this song on the wall, I have come to realise that only the love of God could have sustained me as, so t say, I went to hell and back and God alone knows how I have survived human wickedness. I just put it on repeat and keep relishing it especially when I am driving long journeys to and from my home country as I am an economic refugee having to work away from home because of the unfairness of wicked human beings who labelled me many years back the stigma of which, all those many years ago has rendered me an object of political stigmatisation and unable to work in the land of my birth. I first heard this sang by the Gaither Vocal Bank and have fallen in love with it ever since and the Band has since become my permanent companion. It is to believe that nothing is beyond the redeeming love of God. It is to believe in transformation of the whole person it is to believe that beyond the ugly is beauty beyond the broken is wholeness beyond dementia is a sound mind beyond sorrow is joy beyond insanity is sanity and beyond death is life. To believe in the redemptive love of God through Jesus is to believe in a reordering of life, to believe that things are not as they seem. What depth of understanding he must have had of living hell what horror he must have experienced in the prison of both his own mind and at the will of evil men who find the insane easy prey.Īnd yet within all that he could pen these words. These words, poignant words of the love of God from someone who suffered from a disease of the mind. The story goes that he must have scribbled it in one of his “saner” moments. The words were found scratched on the walls of an insane asylum by a patient. It has outlived campy songs, sung with clear voices while holding hands with the Boyfriend in Murree it has outlived worship choruses, sung with sincerity across the globe.īut I didn’t know its history until recently.

I remember singing it as a little girl, learning to play it as a young piano student, and memorizing it as a college kid. It has been my favorite hymn for as long as I can remember.

As long as you love me lyrics kid quill