"Tim's Song"

Written by Barb Pazey, May, 1987 for Tim Cox.

In May of 1987 Tim was admitted to McLeod Hospital with unstable angina, and while there, hooked up to the monitors on the heart floor, he had cardiac arrest. He never stopped talking — Dr. Ken Hanger, his cardiologist, was standing right outside the room looking at Tim's chart when the alarms came in, came running into the room and put an emergency pacemaker in, then took him down to the Cardiac Lab to open up that artery. Tim had bypass surgery a week or so later.

However, in the middle of the night after the heart attack, the Lord gave this song to Barb Pazey, a lady who played the piano while I played the organ at First Pentecostal Baptist Church out at Effingham, to let her know that Tim would live and not die. Tim and I have played it together many times over the years, and I played it here at Trinity on December 3rd, when Keith asked if I would like to play for Communion. Tim told me later that it meant a lot to him that I played that song, he just wished he'd had his horn with him and could had played it with me.

Here's "Tim's Song."

Thanks be unto God the father, and to the Holy Ghost,
He sent his Son to die for me, and gave me eternal life.
Thanks be unto God the father, and to the Holy Ghost,
He made me whole by the blood of the Lamb,
and He's Jesus Christ, my Lord.

Thanks be unto God the father, and to the Holy Ghost,
He sent his Son to die for me, and gave me eternal life.
Thanks be unto God the father, and to the Holy Ghost,
He made me whole by the blood of the Lamb,
and He's Jesus Christ, yes He's Jesus Christ,
yes He's Jesus Christ, my Lord.