Sing Into Your Storm

perspective in the matter. But every storm is an opportunity to bear fruit, grow spiritually, and worship Christ from a deeper, intimate place! Don’t waste your sorrows! With the right perspective you can leverage every difficult storm in your life actually to extract from it exceedingly precious and valuable spiritual things! Black clouds can have silver linings! I heard Ray Hughes once say that “Sometimes the purest cleansing rain fall s from the darkest black clouds! ” God will encompass you about! He will surround you with songs of deliverance! If you only knew the full story behind many of the great hymns that you have sung for years. Many of these hymns were written in the midst of unspeakable tragedy, pain, sorrow and suffering. Here is just an one incredible example: Annie Johnson Flint (1866-1932) lost both parents before she was six years of age. She was adopted, but while still in her teen years she became afflicted with arthritis and unable to walk. Though she aspired to become a composer and concert pianist, her illness deprived her of that ability so she resorted to writing poetry. In her later life, being unable even to open her hands, she wrote many of her poems on a typewriter – using her knuckles. From her deep affliction, she wrote one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring hymns ever heard:

HE GIVETH MORE GRACE

“ He giveth more Grace, as our burdens grow greater, He sendeth more Strength as our labors increase,

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