Charles Weigle's life

It is not difficult to sing when all is going well. But often God gives a special song to one of His hurting children during the night times of their lives. Believers find new joys in their nights of sorrow and despair, and they discover a greater closeness with their Lord during times of deep need. The Apostle John wrote the book of Revelation while on the barren island of Patmos; John Bunyan completed the classic Pilgrim's Progress while in the Bedford jail; Beethoven composesed his incredible 9th Symphony while totally deaf; and Fanny Crosby once remarked, "If I had not lost my sight, I could never have written all the hymns God gave me."

Charles Weigle's song, "No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus", was the product of one of the darkest periods of his life. Weigle spent most of his life as an itinerant evangelist and gospel songwriter. One day after returning home from an evangelistic crusade, he found a note left by his wife of many years. The note said she had had enough of an evangelist's life. She was leaving him. Weigle later said that he became so despondent during the next several years that there were times when he contemplated suicide. There was the terrible despair that no one really cared for him anymore. Gradually his spiritual faith was restored, and he once again became active in the Christian ministry. Soon he felt compelled to write a song that would be a summary of his past tragic experience. From a heart that had been broken came these choice words that God gave to comfort Charles Weigle:

I would love to tell you what I think of Jesus
Since I found in Him a friend so strong and true;
I would tell you how He changed my life completely--
He did something that no other friend could do.

All my life was full of sin when Jesus found me;
All my heart was full of misery and woe;
Jesus placed His strong and loving arms around me,
And He led me in the way I ought to go.

Every day He comes to me with new assurance,
More and more I understand His words of love;
But I'll never know just why He came to save me,
Till some day I see His blessed face above.

CHORUS:
No one ever cared for me like Jesus;
There's no other friend so kind as He;
No one else could take the sin and darkness from me--
O how much He cared for me!

Taken from http://our.homewithgod.com/ewerluvd/hymndevotionals/6_26.htm