Look up amid thy sorrow

This week has been an interesting one for me...
-- new areas of repentance
-- clashing into all those hope-filled hymns on Tuesday night at the Indelible Grace concert
-- the variety of things I'm working on (from sermon prep to cong.mtg prep to praying & counseling to blah blah)
-- meeting with friends and hearing their struggles & heartaches and frustrations AND HOPES!

Regardless, i find my heart tender toward God... longing to grow in contentment with Christ.... who knows all there is to know (good & bad; tragic & terrific) of me... and knows all of you too.

O heart bereaved and lonely,
Whose brightest dreams have fled
Whose hopes like summer roses,
Are withered crushed and dead

Though link by link be broken,
And tears unseen may fall
Look up amid thy sorrow,
To Him who knows it all --from the hymn, O Heart Bereaved & Lonely, by Fanny Crosby