What a Friend We Have in Jesus - Hymn for May
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