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And he remembers that God’s great faithfulness is inextricably connected to his unceasing steadfast love (Psalm 57:10). I remember some of the homesickness which I encountered and I remember the anticipation of visits from my parents on Friday nights. After centuries of prophetic warnings issued to his stiff-necked, disobedient people (Isaiah 1:7–9; Amos 2:4–5), God at last brought upon Israel the dreadful covenant curses Moses described in Deuteronomy 28:47–57.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of Life Happens draws on her own experiences as wife of Ohio congressman Sherrod Brown to describe what it is like to be married to a political candidate, as well as the realities of political life, from what really goes on during a campaign, to dealing with political intrigues and betrayals, to avoiding smear campaigns. And this is the very same thought that motivated Norman Clayton (1903-1992) to pen the words of this week's hymn choice. Sweet because of all the touching details and heartwarming stories that Schultz shares from their personal lives and from the campaign itself. But in and through it all, this promise remains clear and sure: nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (8:39).
I doubt this poet realized that these words — the words of “a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3) — would so powerfully foreshadow Christ. This love story also addresses what it means to be a feminist and a woman who supports her husband and continues to pursue her career and to be her true self. Schultz lives in Cleveland with her husband, Sherrod Brown, and their two rescue dogs, Franklin and Walter. When things go dark, when we can’t see, either we will have faith that God is still there, or we will give over to despair.
Connie Schultz is married to Ohio’s junior senator, Sherrod Brown, and has two children and two stepchildren. When darkness seems to hide His face,” is how you’ll sometimes see it, especially in modern hymnals, and this is how that first kind of religion that I talked about prefers it.
My husband served on our local School Board, so I know how ugly and tiring politics can be - and I live in a town of 35,000 people! They recognize that we face innumerable threats, seen and unseen, physical and spiritual, from above and from below. His profession was in the building industry, but he also created his own publishing house, Gospel Songs, which was later absorbed into the Rodeheaver Company.
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