Song: I WILL be WELL!

I will be well

When I leave the boat.

I will be well

Though I cannot swim.

I will be well

When I touch His coat.

I will be well

When I go to Him.

I will be well

When I lose my wrath.

I will be well

Even when l'm old.

I will be well

When I'm on His path.

I will be well

In the Shepherd's fold.

I will be well

When I am so ill.

I will be well

When I cannot see.

I will be well

When my body's still.

I will be well

For God walks with me.

Chorus:

I will be well

In my Savior's love.

I will be well,

Here or heav'n above.

I will be well,

For He's telling me,

"You will be well, child.

You walked with me."

I wrote the 3 verses on November 14, 2018. On November 16, I got the diagnosis that I had endometrial cancer. I posted the poem on a couple of Facebook walls. On November 18, Anthony Harlen "Tony" Kite, one of the directors of the Texas Normal Singing School, in Abilene, which I'd attended on a full scholarship a few months previously, added the chorus, and wrote a melody. He and another friend-in-person, Aveva Peirce, added the harmonies. I and a couple of other friends changed a couple of notes. I am adding a picture of the sheet music here, and separately. If anyone wants it, please contact me. We sang it at the Huffman church of Christ, Birmingham, Alabama, a few times. It has also been sung by a church in Connecticut and by one in Vermont, that I know of ... and possibly by others.

Tim Stevens led it a few times when he was at Huffman, May 3-5, 2019. He had Romans 15:13 on rhe screen.

Other applicable Bible verses, for each verse of the poem/song: Matthew 14:26-30; 9:20-22 (the woman who touched the hem of Jesus' coat); Proverbs 15:1 and Job 5:2, about being angry; Leviticus 19:32 and Proverbs 16:31 about getting old; Jeremiah 6:16 (walk in the old paths); Psalm 23:5, John 10:14, 1 Peter 5:4; Matthew 10:8 and Luke 7:2; Ecclesiastes 12:3 and Matthew 11:5; John 11, the story of Lazarus; Psalm 23:4