Wednesday, June 14, 2006

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....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I didn't know you ever heard Natalie Grant.