When There Are No Easy Answers

Several people in my life are facing difficult circumstances right now - the kind that causes you to wake in the middle of the night second guessing God and feeling like the warmth of your daily, happy life has been stripped away - and appropriate for today's downpour of rain - your entire body has been doused with icy water. I can't think of the right words to say or the big picture - but this song sung by Natalie Grant (written by someone else whose name escapes me) feels fitting.

Held

Two months is too little

they let him go, they had no sudden healing

To think that providence would take a child

from his mother while she prays is appalling-

Who told us we'd be rescued,

what has changed and why should we be saved

from nightmares?

We're asking why this happens

to us who have died to live

It's unfair

This is what it means

to be held, how it feels

when the sacred is torn from your life

and you survive

This is what it is

to be loved and to know

that the promise was

when everything fell,

we'd be held

This hand is bitterness

We wanna' taste it, let the hatred numb our sorrow

The wise hand opens slowly

to lilies of the valley

and tomorrow

If hope is born of suffering,

if this is only the beginning

can we not wait for one hour,

watching for our Savior -

This is what it means to be held,

how it feels when the sacred is torn from your life

and you survive

This is what it is

to be loved and to know

that the promise was

when everything fell,

we'd be held....