Sunday's Hymn: In Heavenly Love Abiding

In heavenly love abiding, no change my heart shall fear.
And safe in such confiding, for nothing changes here.
The storm may roar without me, my heart may low be laid,
But God is round about me, and can I be dismayed?

Wherever He may guide me, no want shall turn me back.
My Shepherd is beside me, and nothing can I lack.
His wisdom ever waking, His sight is never dim.
He knows the way He’s taking, and I will walk with Him.

Green pastures are before me, which yet I have not seen.
Bright skies will soon be over me, where darkest clouds have been.
My hope I cannot measure, my path to life is free.
My Savior has my treasure, and He will walk with me.

— Anna L. Waring

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• Update: By Your Side at Gospel Grace
• Down From His Glory at By Grace Alone
• Heavenly Sunlight at The Happy Wonderer
• Just As I Am at Challies.com
• God Is Ascended Up on High at Conjubilant With Song
• Voices from the Past #19 at Tried With Fire 
• Lord’s Day 19, 2013 at The Thirsty Theologian
• You Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: A salute to mothers

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.

Thankful Thursday

It’s late. I’m tired, but thankful:

• for an exhausting but productive day. I took care of my second granddaughter during the day and then went to a long choir practice after supper. 
• for the immigrant communities in my church. Sunday we will sing hymns and read scripture in all the different native languages—Mandarin, Tagalog, Japanese, Slovak, and many more. (That’s what the choir practice was for: learning to sing verses of familiar hymns in the various languages.)
• for warm weather. It’s been a long, long winter, and I’m thankful that it’s finally over.
• for non-drowsy antihistamines—God’s good gift to me every spring.
• for the promise of a slower day tomorrow.
• for a comfy bed and an open window as I sleep.
• that God never sleeps.

Linked Together: The Older Person

As a Blessing
To the grandchildren:

It’s a pretty magnificent vantage point—getting to see close-up our God at work generation after generation, just like he promised. It’s a huge opportunity—having a chance to speak words of grace and truth into little lives opening in front of you like some time-lapse YouTube clip of flowers blooming. It’s the most consuming kind of fun—as you stop and read a story, and everything else in the world just disappears for a few minutes.

(Kathleen Nielson at The Gospel Coalition Blog.)

In the church:

[T]he Bible instructs the pastor to teach the congregation to be there for one another and does so by tying the generations together so that the built-in expertise of old age gets leveraged for every younger generation. It’s a beautiful thing.

In this way older members of the local church become the front line of discipleship and care. They brighten the future of the church by teaching younger members how to live out the faith, how to avoid mistakes, seize opportunities, practically apply the word of God to their lived realities.

(Thabiti Anyabwile at Pure Church.)

As a Burden
To the children:

I hope my children never have to sacrifice for their father when I’m elderly. But, if they do, I pray I’ll be Christlike enough to crucify my pride and receive their love.

(Russell Moore at Moore to the Point.)