After staring intently at my computer screen, working on homework for a good hour and a half, Adam showed me this list of Newspaper Headlines from 1999. I decided to share them with you in the hope that they will relieve as much of your stress as they did mine.

1. Include Your Children When Baking Cookies
2. Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Experts Say
3. Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
4. Drunks Get Nine Months in Violin Case
5. Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
6. British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands
7. Teacher Strikes Idle Kids
8. Clinton Wins Budget; More Lies Ahead
9. Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told
10. Miners Refuse to Work After Death
11. Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
12. Stolen Painting Found by Tree
13. Two Sisters Reunited after 18 Years in Checkout Counter
14. War Dims Hope for Peace
15. If Strike Isn’t Settled Quickly, It May Last a While
16. Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
17. Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge
18. New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
19. Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Space
20. Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
21. Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
22. Typhoon Rips through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

Earlier this evening, as I was sitting and talking with Lydia in the lobby of the other dorm building, I overheard another student quote from the song, “It Is Well.” It’s pretty powerful tp say “it is well with my soul.” The statement encompasses so much more than just feeling great physically or exercising the mind. Rather, it seems to convey the idea that regardless of what is happening to us, what state we are in, whatever good or hardship we are experiencing, everything is well with our soul because of Christ’s presence in our life.

Philippians 4
6Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Here are the lyrics to the song, written by Horatio G. Spafford.

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.

But, Lord, ’tis for Thee, for Thy coming we wait,
The sky, not the grave, is our goal;
Oh trump of the angel! Oh voice of the Lord!
Blessed hope, blessed rest of my soul!

And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.