Category: john c mchugh m.d.

I spoke yesterday in Helen, Ga on the prayer of Jonah. What? The Chattahoochee Methodist Church- “I’d Climb The Highest Mountain” was filmed there in 1951. The church was established in 1860. Remember Tarshish?
Piqued your interest? Try Chapter 9 “The Sermon” from Moby Dick.

Jonah’s Prayer

2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,

“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.

3
For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
passed over me.

4
Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’

5
The waters closed in over me to take my…