Day by Day (hymn)

Day by Day
Christian hymn by Oscar Ahnfelt
Genre	Swedish
Occasion	funeral
Text	Lina Sandell
Language	hymn

Day by Day, is a Christian hymn written in 1865 by Lina Sandell several years after she had witnessed the tragic drowning death of her father. It is a hymn of assurance used in American congregational singing.

Sandell-Berg was a prolific Swedish hymn writer. Two of her hymns, "Day By Day" and "Children of the Heavenly Father" are widely known in the U.S. The original and most popular English translation of the hymn is by Andrew L. Skoog, a Swedish immigrant to the U.S. "Day by Day" started appearing in American hymnals in the latter half of the 1920s, and its popularity has increased since then. The hymn's tune was composed in 1872 by Oscar Ahnfelt.

The hymn's Swedish name is "Blott en Dag," its first three words in Swedish. The words mean "just one day" or "just another day." In Sweden, it is popular at funerals. It was recorded by Carola Häggkvist in 1998 on the album "Blott en dag" .,. Other Swedish recordings include one in 1965 by Curt & Roland and on Anna-Lena Löfgren 1972 Christmas album, "Nu tändas tusen juleljus."

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