Honesty is MORE than a policy!

You can be dishonest,

 

and UNHOLY.

 

If you’re going to be HOLY,

 

you must to be honest! 

 

– eab, 3/19/10

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BODY GUARD

Mans’ body was made to carry the soul;

Not the mind – as Edison said.

Which I’m sure he found out, since he stepped out,

Leaving the living, for the dead.

Yes, the body was made to carry the soul;

The weak to carry the strong,

The shortest lived, its life to give,

To shelter the one that lives long.  

                – eab, Mar. ’72

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Frances “Fanny” Jane Crosby – birth, Mar. 24, 1820

Pass me not, O gentle Savior,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.

Savior, Savior,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.

Let me at Thy throne of mercy
Find a sweet relief,
Kneeling there in deep contrition;
Help my unbelief.

Trusting only in Thy merit,
Would I seek Thy face;
Heal my wounded, broken spirit,
Save me by Thy grace.

Thou the Spring of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have I on earth beside Thee?
Whom in Heav’n but Thee?

Frances “Fanny” Jane Crosby was born this date, 3/24/1820 (1823?) at Put­nam Coun­ty (Southeast) New York.  She was converted to Christ and became a Methodist.  Her “list” of songs/hymns is some 8,000 titles long. “To God Be the Glory,” “Blessed Assurance,” “Rescue the Perishing,” and “Draw Me Nearer” being a few of her many well-known poems set to music.  You can read the words and hear the music to scores of these at Cyberhymnal.org

She died 2/12/1915, at Bridge­port, Con­nec­ti­cut.

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