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From Brokenness to Blessing

Heart of the Artist, Linda Meyers, Stories About Songs

Hebrews 6:19-20 — This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary. Jesus has already gone in there for us.

Eliza Hewitt was not used to silence. She had built her life around classrooms, chalkboards, and the steady hum of work. She liked being useful and always moving toward something.

But then the injury came, and life suddenly got quiet.

Days stretched out like long empty roads. Her body throbbed, her spirit became restless, and questions circled in her mind. Why me? What now? Where is God in all of this?

She would have traded anything for answers.

But as the days passed, Eliza started to read her Bible. This was not the casual kind of reading used to pass the time. No. She was desperate.

And in those long, slow hours, she saw things she had never noticed before. Words she had skimmed past now felt alive. Promises she had memorized now felt like they were written just for her.

She knew she was not just surviving this hardship. God was doing something in it.

One day she found herself humming an old tune she had started writing before everything changed. At the time, it was just another melody. Now, the words carried weight:

“When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be.”

Those days in Scripture had changed her. Hope was no longer abstract—it was a rock-solid anchor for her soul. It was what kept her steady when everything else felt unmoored.

When she finally released the song, it spread like wildfire. People who were hurting and searching found something in those words—something bigger than their pain.

Eliza never would have chosen her hardship, but looking back, she saw it clearly. Her pain had not been wasted. God had turned her silence into a song of hope, and it was too valuable to keep to herself.

That’s the thing about hope—it doesn’t just hold you steady; it gives you something to offer others.

Could it be that the very thing you are wrestling with right now is the story someone else needs to hear?

A MOMENT TO REFLECT

What hardship or “quiet season” has God used to deepen your hope in Him?
How has His Word become an anchor for your soul in times of uncertainty?
Who might need to hear the song of hope your story is still writing?

When We All Get to Heaven

Sing the wondrous love of Jesus
Sing His mercy and His grace
In the mansions, bright and blessed
He’ll prepare for us a place

When we all get to Heaven
What a day of rejoicing that will be
When we all see Jesus
We’ll sing and shout the victory

While we walk the pilgrim pathway
Clouds will overspread the sky
But when traveling days are over
Not a shadow, not a sigh

When we all get to Heaven
What a day of rejoicing that will be
When we all see Jesus
We’ll sing and shout the victory

Onward to the prize before us
Soon His beauty we’ll behold
Soon the pearly gates will open
And we shall tread the streets of gold

When we all get to Heaven
What a day of rejoicing that will be
When we all see Jesus
We’ll sing and shout the victory

(Words: Eliza E. Hewitt / Music: Emily D. Wilson / Arranged By: Mark Hall)

October 26, 2025/by Linda Meyers

Worth the Greatest Price

Brenda Price, Daily Devotional

1 Corinthians 6:20 – For God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

John’s dad had a favorite phrase. He told him often as he could.

“You aren’t worth one thin dime.”

He said it enough times that eventually John believed it. That phrase stuck with him and echoed in his brain. As John grew older, he couldn’t escape those words, and he became an angry, angry person.

By the time he was grown, the impact of his father’s words crept its way into John’s marriage. He couldn’t take it any longer, so he left. He did not believe he could ever be enough for them, so John took a passive role in his wife and son’s life.

In the separation, His estranged wife lent him the family van. The only problem was the radio. It was jammed, stuck on the Christian station. He slammed buttons and twisted knobs trying to make it stop playing.

Weeks went by. Months. Eventually, he quit fighting it and started listening.

Little by little, John’s heart softened. He came back home to his family and asked if they could start going to church. John stood in the water and was baptized.

For the first time in a long time, he felt like maybe his life could be worth something after all.

One day, John decided to clean underneath that car’s radio.

He pulled it out, and discovered why his radio was stuck. There, wedged beneath the preset button, was a single dime.

John just stared at it for a long time.

That same symbol that once represented worthlessness as a boy now told him something entirely different. The coin his earthly father used to define him had been used by his Heavenly Father to redeem him.

In that moment, John realized his worth was never up for debate. He life had been bought at the highest price—the life of God’s only Son.

He still carries that dime in his pocket as a reminder of the God who never stopped believing in him.

It makes me wonder — do you know you’re worth it, too?

A MOMENT TO REFLECT

Are there words from your past that still shape the way you see yourself?
How does knowing that you were “bought at a price” change the way you see your worth?
What’s one way you can remind yourself this week that your value comes from God—not anyone else’s opinion?

October 25, 2025/by Brenda Price

Small Offerings, Big Impact

Daily Devotional, David Hall

1 Corinthians 3:6-7 — I planted the seeds in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow. It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What important is that God makes the seed grow.

The first time I hosted Bible study at my little downtown rental, it felt like feeding five thousand men with a sack lunch.

The group had started with Trace and Jordan in an old warehouse in Bawcomville. They were the kind of leaders you look up to—the ones who make you believe God really can use ordinary people. But Trace was heading back to college, and Jordan was packing for Tennessee.

The study that had changed my life—teaching me freedom, confession, and brotherhood—was about to dissolve. I couldn’t let that happen.

I looked at my two-bedroom house and thought, I’ve got room. I can at least open the door.

So I did.

And thirty men crammed into my living room like sardines in a can. The air smelled like coffee and old sneakers, voices tumbled over each other, and the floorboards groaned under the weight of laughter and prayer. It was loud, crowded, messy—and it was holy ground.

But leadership wasn’t glamorous. Some nights were heavy. Preparation felt like work, and hosting went way too late into the evening. Yet other nights, the room buzzed with the unmistakable presence of God.

Men confessed secret struggles. Some found faith for the first time. Others discovered brothers who became closer than family. Darkness lost its power under the light of truth.

And I learned something. The miracle wasn’t in my ability to lead. It was in simply making room.

That’s how the kingdom works. God takes what little we can give—time, space, a shaky “yes”—and He multiplies it until lives are changed.

Paul once reminded the church in Corinth that believers should live differently than the world—choosing grace and reconciliation over division.

“The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?” — 1 Corinthians 6:7

In other words, sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is open our hands, make space, and trust God to move through it.

We bring our loaves and fish. He feeds the multitude.

And the glory is always His.

A MOMENT TO REFLECT

When has God used something small you offered—your time, space, or effort—to grow something bigger than you expected?
In what ways are you planting or watering in someone else’s life right now?
Are there areas where you need to trust God for the growth instead of trying to make it happen yourself?
How can you make room this week for God to move through your “yes”?

October 24, 2025/by David Hall