Companionship is what makes every journey enjoyable.

Today, we continue our journey with Jesus.

Join Scott Pauli as we make brief stops in the Gospel according to Mark.

We trust you will enjoy the journey.

The famous hymn writer, Blind Fannie Crawsby, lived in Manhattan's Lower West Side tenement housing in her day.

And poor, poor conditions. She was full of the joy and

love of God. She went to sing at a local prison one afternoon, and as she was leaving this particular

place where she had sung some of her hymns and given her testimony, she was being led by the arm

down a prison corridor, and she said she passed a certain prison cell.

She did not know the prisoner. She did not know anything about his background, but she could tell he was

praying. He was not up on her level. He was down low to the ground. Her hearing was very good and

she heard him pray and almost whisper his prayer upon his knees.

The words that she heard him say were these, oh, dear God, do not pass me by.

The words stayed with her and she got home that night.

She took a pen and a piece of paper and wrote the most beautiful song,

Pass me not, O gentle savior, hear my humble cry, while on others thou art calling, do not pass me by. You know, when Jesus is

passing by, when the Lord is doing his work, there always are two groups of people. There are those

who recognize it, and there are those who miss people. There are those who recognize it and there are

those who miss it. There are those who get in on it and there are those that it simply seems to

have avoided them altogether. How is it possible in a church that the Lord begins to move in work and

some people are so affected by it and others seem so untouched? How is it in a family that spiritually some can be awakened

and others seem still dead to what God is doing? Perhaps the answer is found in our scripture

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