Spiritually Healthy

As I lay here and try to quiet my mind and heart before I drift off into sleep, my body decides it wants to fight the coming rest. Like clockwork, my mind comes alive when I lay my head back on my flatter-than-normal-pillow and I end up remaining wide-awake for hours. Like now. So I played some worship music that speaks God's truth into my tired soul. The words of this beautiful song "hit the spot": The night is dark but I am not forsaken For by my side, the Savior He will stay I labour on in weakness and rejoicing For in my need, His power is displayed To this I hold, my Shepherd will defend me Though the deepest valley He will lead Oh the night has been won and I shall overcome, yet not I, but through Christ in me Sleep well, my friends and know that the Great Shepherd is watching over thee. Rest now. 

It was a goal of mine this month to get this post out no later than the first week of April.  For those of you who have been faithful in keeping up with my little corner on the web, I appreciate you! So. It's April! Can you believe it? We are already into the FOURTH month of 2023! Lord, where has this time gone?  As I was preparing for this months hymn, I didn't even think that there would be a correlation to Easter. *cue duh Sarah moment*  This particular hymn was written by Elvina M. Hall on the fly-leaf of the New Lute of Zion, in the choir loft of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Baltimore, in the spring of 1865.  I hear the Savior say,  "Thy strength indeed is small,  Child of weakness, watch and pray,  Find in Me thine all in all." Refrain: Jesus paid it all, All t Him I owe; Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.  Lord, now indeed I find, Thy pow'r and Thine alone, can change the leper's spots, And melt the heart of sto...