This is a beautiful song of hope. Just as I am reflecting this Sunday morning on God and this wonderful life of faith I have received as a gift from Him, my heart goes out to all who are struggling with doubt, diversity, conflict, oppression, illness, slander, the list goes on.... Maybe we humans tend to look everywhere else in life for comfort in tough moments other than in the presence of God. It is in the stillness that He comes to us and fills us with his serenity and peace. The way to God is through faith in Jesus Christ the Messiah. He patiently waits for us to turn to Him with all our hearts and acknowledge that He is the Son of God. He loved us so much that He offered Himself as a sacrifice in our stead so that we could be declared 'righteous' before a holy God. The apostle Paul, who once murdered Christians, wrote some of the deepest mysteries of the faith he once vehemently opposed. He attributed this dramatic change to a living encounter with the risen Christ (