Saving Grace

The words

A humble believer marvels that he has been kept alive and rescued by grace he did not earn.

The narrator looks back on his life, considering the many times he might have died or gone astray, and credits his survival entirely to divine grace. Rather than preaching to others, he sounds grateful and almost surprised to be spared, and he looks ahead calmly to death. The tone is quiet, reverent and personal. The arrangement is spare and hymn-like, with organ and soft backing voices.