The Night the World Whispered Something Spiritual
Last night our bodies were aching from a stubborn virus—the sort that makes even a cough feel like your brain is about to explode and your throat like a fiery inferno. Still, we kept our little evening rhythm: Bible discussion first, then our audiobook session with An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski, which I will review when we finish.
Afterward, neither of us had much strength, but those words had steadied the room. It helps to read about the better aspects of human nature.
“Put on something gentle and relaxing,” my wife said. “Something that won’t require effort.”
So I opened YouTube.
Up came a video: believers from around the world, linked across screens and time zones, performing The Blessing. Faces in small rectangles. Living rooms. Mountains. Kitchens. Japanese villages. Different accents, different lighting, different ages—one song.
REAL HOPE for 2026 ♥ THE WORLD BLESSING ♥ 500 Versions of the Blessing in One ♥
It was beautiful, hypnotic, relaxing and feel good.
Then another appeared. Japan. Then Nigeria. Then South Sudan. Israel. Singapore. The UK. Ireland. One after another—the same song, carried in different timbres, rising from continents we’ve never walked.
We lay there feverish and still, yet suddenly we were global.
Our bodies were fighting infection, but our hearts were traveling. Each nation sang the same ancient promise—that the Lord bless you and keep you—and it felt less like a performance and more like participation in something vast and unseen.
Without noticing, the night grew late.
The weakness remained. The fever did not vanish. But something had shifted. While our bodies did their quiet work of recovery, our spirits had been tended.
And when we finally closed our eyes, it felt as though the world itself had whispered a blessing over the room and I whispered to my wife, "What a time we will have when we enter the paradise that Jesus promised.
How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in harmony!
Psalm 131:1