Day 27: Solitary Silence

In Mich's recent post, she quoted from Ginny Owen's "If you want me to..." Its a phenomenal song about walking a broken pathway, following signs that may not be all that clear purely on Faith. That we may not always understand why we are where we are but because He first loved, because He first braved the fire, and because He already promised we'd never walk alone- we'd walk through the valley if He wants us to. That "when the whole world turns against me/And I'm all by myself/And I can't hear (Him) answer my cries for help/I'll remember the suffering (His) love put (Him) through/And I will go through the valley, If (He) wants me to..."

One solitary Life
By Dr James Allan Francis

Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself...

While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth – His coat. When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.

Nineteen long centuries have come and gone, and today He is a centerpiece of the human race and leader of the column of progress. I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that were ever built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.