Peace and blessings to Janelle and her husband, a friend of my cousin.

Title: Like A River Glorious
Composer: Frances Ridley Havergal

Recently I received a text from my cousin, Rita, who asked if I would play "Like a River Glorious" for her friend, Janelle. Janelle's husband had a major stroke. Many prayers for Janelle and her husband.

When Frances Havergal was vacationing in the south of Wales, 1876, she caught a severe cold, accompanied by inflammation of the lungs. Hearing how ill she was, and that she might die, she replied, "If I am really going, it is too good to be true". Her friends were amazed at how peacefully she received this information. She did survive that illness, and later that year she wrote the hymn "Like a River Glorious". It echoes Isaiah in which God promises peace like a river. Peace is yours already, purchased for you, made for you, sealed for you, pledged to you.

Lyrics:
Like a river glorious is God’s perfect peace,
over all victorious in its bright increase;
perfect, yet it floweth fuller every day;
perfect, yet it groweth deeper all the way.

Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blessed;
finding, as He promised, perfect peace and rest.

Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand,
never foe can follow, never traitor stand;
not a surge of worry, not a shade of care,
not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there.

Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blessed;
finding, as He promised, perfect peace and rest.

When a joy or trial falleth from above,
traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love,
we may trust Him fully all for us to do;
they who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true.

Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blessed;
finding, as He promised, perfect peace and rest.