Music is becoming the best therapy for me--again. I am 're-reading a book titled "Amazing Grace-366 Inspiring Hymn Stories for Daily Devotions" ©1990 by Kenneth W. Osbeck. It's been several years since I last read it, and I'm finding that the old hymns really lift my spirit. Like yesterday's, by an obscure lay preacher named George A. Young--"Some through the waters, some through the flood, some through the fire, but all through the blood. Some through great sorrow, but God gives a song, in the night seasons and all the day long."
Hymn for today, by William Cowper (1731-1800), a gifted English poet and writer, who suffered from bouts of mental illness all his life. But between his times of depression and attempted suicide, he gave the World some great hymns about God's care of us. Here's one you may recognize:
"God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform...
Blind unbelief is sure to err and scan his work in vain;
God is his own interpreter, and he will make it plain."
Isn't it interesting that someone who has been in the greatest depths of despair can remind us so well of how much God loves his children.
More music to come later.
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