This hymn has never meant more to me than it does now: I Need Thee Every Hour, sung here by Fernando Ortega. (My mother and my grandma used to sing it, too.)
Yes, I need Jesus! We all need you, Lord. Especially when things go very wrong. I didn’t know what was going to happen to me in that hospital yesterday. Somehow I feel I was lucky to get out in one piece last night.
O Christ my shield and helmet! We are your people, the sheep of your hand… and we need our shepherd.
P.S.–Yes, I still want to post Christmas hymns this weekend. Requests, anyone?
Beautiful hymn. I’d never heard it before.
Maybe a coincidence, but last night I woke up with such an excruciating leg cramp that for 5 full minutes I was bathed in sweat and gasping for breath — and all through it, I kept offering up the pain for you and someone else on my emergency list. Maybe that helped you get home in one piece. (Remember, my “in the middle of sleep” time is normal people’s evening activities time.)
I’m just glad and thankful to God that we’re both still here.
Since taking chemo pills, I suffer from calf cramps nearly every night. I get up and walk it off and then pray so I can go back to sleep. Who wants to start their day at 2:30 in the morning?
I only seem to get those cramps when I’m trying to sleep.
Well, WhiteRabbit, I start my day at 2:45 — but that’s because I start my work around the church at 4:30, or at 4:10 on Sundays and Mondays. And of course I go to bed very early as well. That’s why I said my “middle of sleep” is other people’s evening activities. 🙂
Here is my request for a song: Christmas is Always- by Carroll’s wife, Donna Roberson.
I’ll save that one for tomorrow morning.
Sounds good. Tomorrow, another day when we still need to think upon the Lord and all He means to us.
For a New Years song, how about “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.”
Why not?