Here are three versions of that beloved hymn, What a Friend We Have in Jesus. It was originated in 1855 by as a poem that Joseph M. Scriven wrote home to his mother in Ireland to comfort her while he was in Canada. The tune was composed by Charles Crozat Converse in 1868.
Read MoreWars tear families apart, diseases rage, storms whip water into sheets of terror, and still, and yet, here is wondrous paradox: the great mystery we dare to name, holds us in tenderest caress, and like the sunʼs gentle warmth coaxing unripe fruit into the fullness of being, rocks us with divine dreams and whispers our true essence, pressing its heart upon us,
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