Song Talks

March 24 th was a banner day in the Meyers household 8 years ago.  Our fourth child and third daughter Edison was born on that day. She has brought immense amounts of joy to our crazy clan of kiddos!  On the same day, 199 years ago another lady was born that has brought joy to just about anyone that has ever picked up a hymnal. Just six weeks after little Fanny was born she developed an eye infection. The family's regular doctor was away, so an unknown doctor began to draw out the infection in her eyes under protest of Fanny's mother Mercy. When Fanny screams finally subsided, the doctor left, and the infection was cleared, but the damage to her corneas would prove irreversible and she was permanently blinded. This of course didn't stop young Fanny.  After her father passed away when Fanny was very young her mother secured a job as a maid, and therefore left the child with her grandmother during the days. Fanny spoke fondly of her grandmother Eunice and rem...

"Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If You O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.  I will wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning. O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with Him is plentiful redemption. And He will redeem Israel from all his iniquities." Psalm 130. This Psalm is one of seven penitential Psalms.  These Psalms are prayers for mercy to God from the author. The most famous penitential Psalm is of course Psalm 51 in which David cries out to God for forgiveness and mercy after his sordid affair with Bathsheba and subsequent murder of her husband Uriah. This Psalm is also called a Song of Ascents. Which most likely means it was sung...

If you are a regular reader of Song Talks then you know occasionally I will use this platform to encourage you all with what the Lord is teaching me.  This week is one of those weeks! No one really enjoys discipline. My children are currently in a season right now where discipline seems to be the only way to get through their stubborn little heads. Whether it's blatant disobedience to a request of their parents, fighting and yelling over stolen toys, unfair game play or just a nasty attitude about everything, discipline always seem to set them straight. Well…ahem…it's not only the kids in our house that have received discipline lately. Good old dad has been chastised by the Lord this week. Yes ladies and gentlemen, us hired ministerial guns can mess things up pretty good too. But wouldn't you know it, the Bible has much to say about the discipline of the Lord and what it means. Check this out from Hebrews 12: "And have you forgotten the exhortation that...