Spiritually Healthy

Not long ago, I read this quote (below) that caused me to say, "Yes, Lord. This!" I've shared on here about my longer-than-I-thought period of singleness. I've shared about the ups and downs of navigating this time of my life.  Lately though, I have been wrestling with something that I just couldn't put my finger on.  "Part of what makes waiting so hard is that there's no guarantee - not knowing whether of not you'll ever get whatever it is that you're waiting for. It'd be so much easier to wait if you knew with full certainty that you'd eventually get what it is you're waiting on. The season of waiting isn't simply waiting...it's also wrestling with the reality that you may not just be waiting for something but that the outcome you hope for may never come to be.  But there's a gift in the in-between and uncertainty. In my season of waiting and uncertainty, I had to learn this one thing: not just to trust God for an outcome...

Good day, my friends! 'Tis a new day and a new month!  My mind cannot comprehend that we are already into the month of May! I feel as though I blinked and April was gone. How have ya'll been? What have ya'll be up to?  So with the new month it is time to learn a "new" hymn, and as you can already tell by the title of this post, that hymn is What a Friend We Have in Jesus .  To my shame I didn't know much about the origins of this particular song. I kind of had a guess that it began as a poem, but the man behind the pen was unknown to me.  Below is a bio of him, his life, and what may have been the driving inspiration for the beloved hymn. "Joseph Scriven had composed the poem to comfort Jane Scriven, his mom, back in Ireland. Joseph had left his home there in 1845 to escape the memory of his departed fiancée. She died accidentally in a river after being thrown from her horse. It was the night before their wedding. Now, ten years later, while living in Po...