“Break forth into singing.”  Isaiah 49:13

There is a beautiful story which tells of songbirds being brought over the sea.  There were thirty-six thousand, mostly canaries.  The sea was very calm when the ship first sailed, and the little birds were silent.  They kept their little heads under their wings and not a note was heard.  But the third day out at sea, the ship struck a furious gale.  The passengers were terrified.  Children wept.  Then a strange thing happened.  As the tempest reached its height, the birds began to sing, first one, then another, until the thirty-six thousand were singing as if their little throats would burst.

“I can hear the songbirds singing their refrain
It is morning in my heart;
And I know that life for me begins again,
It is morning in my heart.

“It is morning, it is morning in my heart,
Jesus made the gloomy shadows all depart;
Songs of gladness now I sing,
For since Jesus is my King,
It is morning, it is morning in my heart.”

Try singing!  Singing in the storm!

Adapted from Springs in the Valley
Mrs. Charles Cowman