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Archive for January 23rd, 2009

kimsch, the designer of this blog and a blogger in her own right, has posted video from Wednesday’s National Prayer Service for President Obama.

You owe it to yourself to watch the video regardless of politics, as it is the best rendition of Amazing Grace I have ever heard sung. It’s very powerful.

In the past week my husband and I have had to deal with something that troubled me and it was only today when he had surgery to remove a cancerous growth on his scalp that I realized how afraid I had been all week since we got the biopsy results.

Just hearing the word “cancer” strikes fear in most people’s very being and, even when told it is highly curable if caught early, you keep thinking of if caught early.

You wonder if it was caught early, and being on the head makes you worry that it may metastasize.

While trying to find the video of Dr. Wintley Phipps so I could give the reference to kimsch so she could see the story behind the song, I found Dr. Phipps singing It is well with my soul, and I realized it is now well with my soul.

The writer of the hymn lost his children in a boat sinking in the Atlantic, and as he crossed the same area on his way to meet his grieving wife, he wrote this beautiful song that is sung at so many Protestant funerals.

I give you Dr. Phipps and his version of It is well with my soul. May it give you the peace that passes all understanding, especially if you are going through a tough time right now.

What a powerful God is the Great I Am. He is indeed Good.

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Very little could provide more of a rewarding, heartbreaking, confusing, educating or enlightening childhood than being that of a President of the United States.

Jenna and Barbara Bush offer a little advice to Malia and Sasha Obama in this very heartwarming (and if you are like me, tear producing) video:

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