And Then What Happened? | Mark 8:27-9:8 | Week 8

It is well with my soul.  Sometimes when I'm singing this song, I want to take that truth and I want to push it, infuse it, into the inward parts of my soul.  Sometimes I also look around and I know those people that are singing it from the overflow of their heart.  You know those people.  The ones who are sitting in the midst of their storm.  Maybe they've been diagnosed with cancer and in the midst of treatment, they're able to have a beautiful smile on their face and say, "It is well with my soul."  I have some friends who lost a child---a stillborn birth.  They never got to meet their child.  And yet, on their blog and social media posts they said, "The Lord gives and the Lord takes away.  Blessed be the name of the Lord."  

 

Right now, I'm following my sister's updates on my dad.  Currently he has something in his foot that needs to be removed.  Over the last couple of years, he's been having eye issues---there's an amoeba that got stuck in his eye.  Over this last week it started to act up and he's in extreme pain in both his eyes.  He's been getting medical help and is sometimes there at midnight.  On his way home, they went to get his car from valet parking and they lost his keys.  Midnight turns to two in the morning and the hospital decides to send them home via Uber.  My sister says that in the middle of the Uber ride home, my dad is telling the driver about Jesus!  In the midst of his pain, he's still able to say, "It is well with my soul."  What's the secret?  How do we get to the place where we are able to have that phrase overflow from our soul?...