Jen's Thoughts

Dear Refuge of My Weary Soul

I heard this song in Sunday School a couple days ago. I'd never heard it before, and I wasn't even at my regular church, but it was a blessing to me, so I thought I'd share it. I guess it's a modern update to an old hymn, with new music written within the past ten years or so, and I really like it. The words were written in the eighteenth century. If you search it out, I'm sure you could hear a version of it sung to get an idea of the melody. God bless!

Dear Refuge of My Weary Soul

1. Dear refuge of my weary soul,
On Thee, when sorrows rise
On Thee, when waves of trouble roll,
My fainting hope relies
To Thee I tell each rising grief,
For Thou alone canst heal
Thy Word can bring a sweet relief,
For every pain I feel

2. But oh! When gloomy doubts prevail,
I fear to call Thee mine
The springs of comfort seem to fail,
And all my hopes decline
Yet gracious God, where shall I flee?
Thou art my only trust
And still my soul would cleave to Thee
Though prostrate in the dust

3. Hast Thou not bid me seek Thy face,
And shall I seek in vain?
And can the ear of sovereign grace,
Be deaf when I complain?
No still the ear of sovereign grace,
Attends the mourner's prayer
Oh may I ever find access,
To breathe my sorrows there

4. Thy mercy seat is open still,
Here let my soul retreat
With humble hope attend Thy will,
And wait beneath Thy feet,
Thy mercy seat is open still,
Here let my soul retreat
With humble hope attend Thy will,
And wait beneath Thy feet

©1998, Kevin Twit Music.

posted by Jen @ 12:31 PM 0 comments

Searching for Motivation...

Because I have no idea where I left it...maybe it's back at the house still on spring break.

It's been a long week of rehearsals (I now know why there's a prefix on that word). We are all improving in different spots, and it is coming together, but it's easy to get tired of it. However, the BIG PROJECT that I was assigned for Advanced Grammar is due Monday. Yes, I knew about it all semester, but now that it's coming down to it, well, it's a BIG time consumer(when I have tons of time - perfect! Because I'm not in practice for several hours a day...). Yes, I should have started much earlier, when I had time...sometime back in January and February...maybe, I'm not sure if I had time then or not. I have most of my sources, now I just have to read/scan through and give their use/benefit to the reader. It's dull work, it's hard to see the benefit - with history papers, at least I've learned more about an event/period/person/etc.

Perhaps I should remember 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.' There's some motivation right there. Well, thanks for reading/listening.

posted by Jen @ 11:59 PM 1 comments