Joining with
the community that is Five Minute Friday with the lovely Lisa Jo Baker. Writing not for comments or traffic or anyone
else’s agenda. But for pure love of the written word. For joy at the sound of
syllables, sentences and paragraphs all strung together by the voice of the
speaker.
Five minutes on: Comfort
Having lived
in different areas of England we have assimilated a varied local vocabulary of
every day phrases, such as saying hello:
Alright my
lovely
Yow Awright
Ey-up
‘Ello chuck
The most
disconcerting one for the boys when they were teenagers in Yorkshire was male
bus drivers who called them love and duck.
The Shunnamite
woman responded everything is all right to
the holy man’s how are you at the
time of Elisha (2 Kings 4:26)
It is well with my soul words penned by Spafford. If you don't know it, it is well worth reading the story behind the words of
this hymn to see just what well of the soul they were drawn from.
Deep and
unfathomable to most of us in a lifetime.
And the best
hymns with the best words they bring a real comfort to the soul, comfort that
is hard to express with words unless it is a place that has been visited by the
soul.
It is well with my soul
