Child of mine
My very flesh and bone
Yesterday I carried you
Now you walk alone.
Willfull and wayward
Our hopes you've left behind,
Shattered into pieces,
Too many to find.

How can I believe
You'll turn and understand?
Still in my heart
The Spirit demands:

Don't give up.
Don't cast her off.
She is not lost;
She has but strayed.
You cannot know
God’s endless ways.
For He is mighty to save.
Don’t give up;
She was His before yours,
And He loves her more
Than you could ever know.
Don’t give up.

Child of mine
My very flesh and bone
Have I failed in teaching you,
Things you should have known?
Did I neglect,
The trust that God has shown?
Have my many weaknesses,
Magnified your own?

Still, my heart knows
Your choices are your own
I cannot save you;
That was already done.

Don't give up.
You're not cast off.
You are not lost,
You have but strayed.
You cannot know
God’s endless ways.
But He is mighty to save.

Don’t give up
You were His before mine,
And He loves you more
Than you could ever know.
Don’t give up.

The Shepherd will not sleep;
“Til He has found His sheep,
He knows them every one.
And He will bring them home.

Don't give up.
Don't cast them off.
They are not lost,
They have but strayed.
We cannot know
God’s endless ways.
But He is mighty to save.

Don’t give up
They were His before yours,
And He loves them more
Than you could ever know.
Don’t give up.

I Love you more than you can know.
Child of mine.

Words by Toni Thomas
Music by Diane Tuiofu

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