Job 9
Friday, January 29th, 2010What does He know that we don’t
What grand design is this
To break apart hearts
Dashing our dreams
Making the precious obscene
Why would He give us it all
Just to empty our souls
To take truth we knew
Make it all naught
Force us to question our minds
Things that He’d given to us
Joy in the love we knew
Suddenly taken
All torn to shreds
Our struggles rendered futile
Some say silence is golden
But we know much better
It’s not gold, but lead
A heavy weight
Crushing our hopes into grief
All that I hear shows me more
Pain and guilt you endured
These pictures are bleak
How can I see
His will when my heart won’t beat
See, I have all the answers
But somehow nothing’s changed
The questions I have
Fall on cold ears
How can I go on silent
The things I know are all true
Honest and good; freeing
Sure, they will hurt us
But just to heal
Can’t we make ourselves sincere
Two stars shine, bound in a dance
So far away, yet still
Turning, twirling on
Bound together
Invisible ties so strong
The mysteries binding us
As surely as our love
Can forgiveness keep
The trust renewed
Believing Him first instead
Everything I know, you don’t
And everything you’ve learned
You can’t understand
It’s too hard now
What light can give us freedom
Goodbye means nothing to us
Still, we keep wond’ring
Would it be worth it
Could we escape
Can closure fix all the pain
Everything seems so simple
We each tell a story
Dark yet hopeful, but
The books are closed
The stories cannot be heard
I need you to look at me
But I’m scared that you’d see
And that you would sob
It’s my weakness
You’d know that I’m not that strong
Yet His strength is perfected
When we’re at our weakest
Can you believe it
That He is strong
No matter how frail I seem
You cannot hear my groanings
Nor I your bitter tears
Yet I know of one
A god, a man
Who hears and who knows us both
In Him, our promise is true
In Him, all things are new
In Him, we can see
In Him, we’ll be
In Him forever secure
