Title: Here I am Lord
Composer: Dan Schutte

In September, when I called Dana, a choir alto, to wish her a Happy Birthday, I told her about this website and asked if she had a favorite that she would like me to play. She told me that "Here I Am, Lord" is her favorite hymn. It was written in 1981 by Dan Schutte. I don't have an arrangement of it so I am playing it in rounds, filling things in more each time. I really enjoy the lyrics to this hymn. Some people may know this hymn as "I, the Lord of sea and sky", from the first line. How grateful I am for this reminder of how much God loves us!

A quick search will show that there's an interesting back story about how Dan Schutte wrote this hymn. He sketched it out over the course of two days, after having the flu for three days, and was even making edits while walking to deliver it. He turned to the stories of prophets to come up with this one.