Then Jesus said, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.” … Mark 6:31 NLT
Come rest awhile from working through the night From all men’s expectations And your own machinations Come rest in faith that sees beyond your sight
Come rest from sin and all regret’s demands And from your shame, and every hidden doubt The unanswered questions and fears that stalk about Come find your rest in God’s Almighty hands
Come rest awhile when everything seems lost Just as I slept when the boat was tossed By that great storm - and the deck by waves was washed Till at my Word the wind and sea were hushed
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity Proverb 17:17 NIV
In the Spring of ’86 just as the days were turning warm With the money they had saved they bought the field above the farm And as their boys ran through the hayfield, they watched the cows below Then imagined how their house would look and where the garden ought to go
The Snickels watched their home being built as it took about a year Then they sorted, prayed and planned when they saw the time growing near For the move out to the country and to leave their friends behind Oh, what a great adventure, that they pictured in their mind
But as the seasons came and went, very soon their two boys grew tall While the garden that they planted filled up the canning jars each Fall And their work seemed almost endless, so they hardly noticed how things changed To wake up one day and find their boys lives were being rearranged
The boys left behind their household chores for college and a job And as the little home grew still, the quiet days just seemed so odd It seemed like only yesterday when Snickels pancakes filled each plate Now looking out they watched as now the empty field fill up with flakes
But in their sudden loneliness God spoke His promise true That through the night however long He'd make each sunrise new And on the pathway that we walk He keeps close onto the end And through every year that passes He will be our faithful friend
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 1 John 4:18 ESV
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