Todd Agnew’s “Come Ye Sinners” seemed to be a natural choice for this evening’s Ash Wednesday service. Lent is about returning to God and preparing to celebrate the resurrection. This stanza seemed particularly appropriate.
Come ye weary, and heavy-laden
Lost and ruined by the fall
And if you tarry until you’re better
You will never come at all
There is no point in waiting, we cannot get better without God’s help.
*About the above photograph: “The Open Road” by Trey Ratcliff, Flickr user: Stuck in Customs, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic License.
The last words of John Wesley were, “The best of all, God is with us.” I just got back from visiting at the hospital and the longer I live the more I believe that John Wesley was absolutely right. No matter what we go through, no matter what we endure, no matter what we suffer (and likewise, though we tend to take less notice of this point, no matter how well our lives may be going, no matter how well the world is treating us at present, no matter how many blessings we can count), the best thing about life is that God is with us … always.