Even When He is Silent
Description
I Believe in the Sun by Kim Andre Arnesen.
Filming by Yuriy Kravets for our 2024 Fall concert.
The Historic Faith · Hymn Companion
Even When He is Silent
Words by Anonymous; text traditionally attributed to an inscription by a Jewish person hiding during World War IIMusic by Kim André ArnesenWritten 2011
I believe in the sun, even when it's not shining.
I believe in love, even when I feel it not.
I believe in God, even when He is silent.
Story Behind the Song
Kim André Arnesen set a short anonymous World War II text often reported as having been found written on a wall by someone hiding from the Nazis, or after the war in a concentration-camp context. The words are a compact confession of faith in the face of absence, suffering, and silence. Arnesen's choral setting, titled "Even When He Is Silent," has become widely performed in contemporary sacred and concert choral repertoire.