God is Good! All the time! All the time God is Good!
Do you remember when you first heard that? It’s funny how some of those sayings just stay with you. (And, no, I will not sing the old Dippity-Doo jingle.) It’s just kind of interesting to me how some things stick in your memory (like a burr on a saddle blanket).
My sister, Lynn, has been gone now for 20 years (in June) and my oldest sister, Rae Jean, since June a year ago. I don’t know why I bring up things like that, except that I’ve decided June is not my favorite month anymore. But I guess it had to do with Lynn’s and my horseback riding songs. We’d saddle up and pretty soon, you could hear us coming “round the bend” with Kumbaya or Happy Trails to You, or By the Light of the Silvery Moon echoing off the hills and hollows of the Ozarks. Lynn had a beautiful alto voice, and I sang three octaves of soprano. (Did I ever tell you my dream was to sing opera? Wouldn’t that have made my voice coach happy?) Oh, those were the good old days.
But I digress. Especially since I started with a Christian saying and took a radical back door to oldies and Roy Rogers.
When you have known the Lord and His goodness, things like the above saying just pop into your head from time to time. He’s with us in the tear-filled night and in the numb days of desolation. But, the fact remains that He is always available, and he is always ready to comfort you or give you a song which just somehow seems to rumble through your head, over and over. Nearer My God to Thee, or Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross, or I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go.
These will not go pulsing through your brain until you have to go to your “forgetting” song. What’s that? You don’t have a “forgetting” song? Well, then I am sure Lynn would invite you to join us in a rousing (23 repeats) of She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain!
What? What’s that you say? You aren’t familiar with She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain? Well, hang out around us and you’ll learn it soon enough! Just sing along and enjoy your ride—wherever it takes you.
