Slice of Laodicea

I have heard hip, healthy young Christians laugh about the musical format at VCY America during the wee hours of the morning. Over the night hours our radio network airs quiet hymns and instrumental music interspersed with Scripture readings and devotional thoughts from the host, Vic Eliason. Oh, if only these young people could read the mail that we get. I have been touched so many times reading letters with the arthritic handwriting from the elderly, reading the heart breaking notes from those who are suffering and those who have nobody else in the world to comfort them in the night—cancer patients, the terminally ill, widows and widowers, those who work the lonely third shift, those who are anxious and hurting who lie awake, watching the clock. I want to share a card, written in child-like handwriting with many cross outs that we received today. I am posting it exactly as it was written, without edits.

“Dear Station Manager:

How are you. I hope your doing OK. Anyway, I want to thank you for putting together your program Music Til Dawn. I listen very often to your program and wanted to express my gratitude. I am so glad to have found a good radio station like yours. I also do send gifts to your cause. I am just crazy about Jesus. Besides what else is there to talk about but the truth. Theres so much wisdom in the Bible. I also have the old, new and completed testament on cassettes. I just love to here about Jesus. I also work for a church and I also have to work alone in the basement. However I have a radio to keep me company so its not so bad. I wrap and sell flowers for Unification Church. But I’m hopeing some day to work full time. So If your working alone alot there’s people who are thankful for it. I know I am. So anyway you have my best wishes and keep up the good work.

Truly,

R.

In a world that has gone utterly crazy, the peace and hope of Jesus Christ shines like a beacon in the darkness of the night hours on Music ‘Til Dawn. Those like this person who labors alone in a basement, getting paid to wrap flowers in night hours for the Unification Church, are being pointed to the truth of the Bible through the airwaves. A widow wrote to say that since her husband of 60 years died recently she simply cannot sleep. She said that the peaceful music and Scripture are like a healing balm to her soul as she grieves the loss of a life’s partner. Who will minister to these dear brothers and sisters in Christ in those moments of personal loss? That’s where ministery-oriented Christian radio can bless so many who are often under the radar, the ones who get overlooked in our bustling churches or who don’t have a support system.

There are moments in life when pain, physical or emotional, can be so acute that no one on earth can really understand. What a precious thing it is in those times to be pointed to the love of the Good Shepherd who never leaves his broken sheep to suffer alone.

Music ‘Til Dawn is heard every night from 11:30pm Central to 5am on the VCY America Network.

Simply trusting Thee, Lord Jesus,
I behold Thee as Thou art,
And Thy love, so pure, so changeless,
Satisfies my heart;
Satisfies its deepest longings,
Meets, supplies its every need,
Compasseth me round with blessings:
Thine is love indeed!

Ever lift Thy face upon me
As I work and wait for Thee;
Resting ’neath Thy smile, Lord Jesus,
Earth’s dark shadows flee.
Brightness of my Father’s glory,
Sunshine of my Father’s face,
Keep me ever trusting, resting,
Fill me with Thy grace.