June 10, 2011 by Elizabeth Brill 0 comments

I am just back from the Christian Community Health Fellowship annual conference in Nashville. It was great to be at a social justice meeting that was so focused on Christ, on submitting to Him, on our inadequacy without Him, AND on poverty, justice, and great health care. There were centers that have been doing this for 30 years, people with as-yet-unfulfilled dreams to start a Christian health center, and clinics like ours somewhere in the middle. I attended some really practical and encouraging workshops and toured a Nashville health center with interpreters for multiple languages and flags from its patients' countries.

Personally, one of the MOST special parts of the conference was the music by Matthew Smith and Indelible Grace. I vividly remember listening to "Jesus Everlasting King" in a Boston apartment, hearing "Jesus I am Resting Resting" on Rwanda jogs, and clinging to "The Lord Will Provide" during a time of transition.

Here are some relevant lyrics from one of the "new" songs we learned:

Through the love of God our Savior, all will be well
Free and changeless is his favor, all is well
Precious is the blood that healed us
Perfect is the grace that sealed us
Strong the hand stretched out to shield us
All must be well

We expect a bright tomorrow; all will be well
Faith can sing through days of sorrow, all is well
On our Father's love relying
Jesus every need supplying
Yes in living or in dying
All must be well

Life is hard.  This work is hard.  But there is reason to hope!