“Nobody knows the troubles I’ve seen / Nobody knows but Jesus”. These lines, especially as sung by Billie Holiday, may reverberate in these troubled days when we seem to be victims of the famous Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times”. Others, more optimistically, may recall the football headline: “Jesus saves.”
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