Charles Wesley had returned from the Georgia Colony in complete despair, just like his brother, John—struggling, doubting, longing for a new relationship with God. Then on May 21, 1738, the day he would call his "conversion day," he discovered the amazing gift of God's love in Christ made known for him. He opened his scriptures to Psalm 43 and read: "God hath put a new song in my mouth." He picked up a pen and never put it down. By the time of his death, he had written no fewer than 8,989 poems, including about 6,500 sing able ones. That works out to be about twelve lines of text every day, seven days a week for fifty years. He and Brother John published 39 hymnals which became the songbooks of the revival, and from the very beginning, the hymnals began with John Wesley's "Directions for S…