LLLV13 12-2-13 Can You Sing in the Night
A week ago on Wednesday evening as my compatriots and I walked into the chapel at the prison where we teach and preach, a large man, who has become a modern day Joseph in the Indiana Prison system, met us at the door and hugged us, while fighting back a tear. This man doesn’t cry. In a youthful rage he had killed three drug dealers that cheated him. All in a few hours. He was 19 and a drop out. Twenty years later he was notified of his mother’s leaving the Vale of Tears for the City Celestial. We were the only ones he told. He went right on with his class responsibilities, counseled several men in the chapel, and was singing his song in the night.
A great song writer who was acquainted with a different kind of grief, Ira Stanphill wrote a song of victory that our prisoner demonstrated. Here are a few of the lyrics:
"You can have a song
In your heart in the night
After every trial
After every mile
Anyone can sing
When the sun's shining bright
But you need a song
In your heart at night.”
The idea behind the song is that it is easy to sing in the sunshine, but to sing as did Ira and Charles Weigle did when he wrote No One Ever Cared For Me Like Jesus requires the Spirit gifting you with a song in your night.
Copyright © 2013 Larry Lilly
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A week ago on Wednesday evening as my compatriots and I walked into the chapel at the prison where we teach and preach, a large man, who has become a modern day Joseph in the Indiana Prison system, met us at the door and hugged us, while fighting back a tear. This man doesn’t cry. In a youthful rage he had killed three drug dealers that cheated him. All in a few hours. He was 19 and a drop out. Twenty years later he was notified of his mother’s leaving the Vale of Tears for the City Celestial. We were the only ones he told. He went right on with his class responsibilities, counseled several men in the chapel, and was singing his song in the night.
A great song writer who was acquainted with a different kind of grief, Ira Stanphill wrote a song of victory that our prisoner demonstrated. Here are a few of the lyrics:
"You can have a song
In your heart in the night
After every trial
After every mile
Anyone can sing
When the sun's shining bright
But you need a song
In your heart at night.”
The idea behind the song is that it is easy to sing in the sunshine, but to sing as did Ira and Charles Weigle did when he wrote No One Ever Cared For Me Like Jesus requires the Spirit gifting you with a song in your night.
Copyright © 2013 Larry Lilly
For really good IT services check out My Guru:
http://development-resources.com/index.html
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