He tells me i am His own...

Written in 1912 by C. Austin Miles, as a commission by a music publisher, “In the Garden”, a religious hymn, was no less spiritually inspired. The composer left an accounting of the writing of it. He describes sitting in a darkened room and taking up the Bible for inspiration. 

“My hands were resting on the Bible while I stared at the light blue wall. As the light faded, I seemed to be standing at the entrance of a garden, looking down a gently winding path, shaded by olive branches. A woman in white, with head bowed, hand clasping her throat, as if to choke back her sobs, walked slowly into the shadows. It was Mary. As she came to the tomb, upon which she place her hand, she bent over to look in, and hurried away.... Mary reappeared; leaning her head upon her arm at the tomb, she wept. Turning herself, she saw Jesus standing before her, and so did I.” 

I come to the garden alone, 
While the dew is still on the roses, 
and the voice I hear falling on my ear, 
The son of God discloses. 

And He walks with me, and he talks with me 
And He tells me I am His own, 
And the Joy we share as we tarry there 
none other has ever known.