03092023 I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends 009

Job Chapter 6 "Certainly I have no power to help myself, since the hope that I can recover has been driven far away from me.  A despairing person should receive loyalty from his friends, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.  But my brothers are as undependable as gullies that dry up, undependable as seasonal streams which overflow when they are darkened by ice and swollen with melting snow, but as quickly as they flood, they dry up in the scorching winds."

Proverbs Chapter 18 "A man's spirit can endure illness, but who can bear a broken spirit?  A discerning heart acquires knowledge, and the ears of the wise seek knowledge."

Have you ever had a friend you can rely on, only to be the friend that lets them down?  Sometimes a person who is in the process of grief struggles being a friend, but Jesus is always our faithful friend.

Earworm today: "Were You There" The spiritual was first published in the 1899 Old Plantation Hymnal, which was composed by William Eleazar Barton.