And disaster comes
We very rarely see it coming, do we? Disaster. Tragedy. Life changing happenings. Those gut wrenching, heart stealing events or moments or conversations just sneak up on us. Sometimes overnight, sometimes over a longer amount of time, but they never come to an expectant open door.
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul
When waters rise
And hope takes flight
And hope? Sometimes it isn’t the dependable always can be relied on as your True North thing that we’d like it to be. Sometimes hope does try to run, run like the wind.
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul
Oh, my sad soul. Oh, your ‘tested to the limits you never knew existed’ soul.
But, even as the waters have risen. Even as the clouds have veiled the sun. Even as hope has taken flight. Even then, I’ve seen and I’ve known what it is for love to swoop down, to tenderly kneel beside me and for grace to kiss my cheeks.
Ever faithful
Ever true
You I know
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
He gives us grace for the journey, and companions too.
When clouds brought rain
And disaster came
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul
When waters rose
And hope had flown
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul
Overflows
Oh, what love, oh, what love
Oh, my soul
Fills with hope
Perfect love that never lets go
Oh, what love, oh, what love
Oh, what love, oh, what love
In joy and pain
In sun and rain
You’re the same
Oh, You never let go
I don’t know what you’re facing right here and right now. Or maybe it is something your friend is facing, and you’re merely trying to be by their side, and support them as best as you can, but you feel horribly out of your depth. This is new territory to you. This I say to you anyway: God is with you. God is with your loved one. The same God who created the universe and everything in it, He is with you. He is with your troubled one. He is unchanging and steadfast. He is constant and true. And when you’re going through high waters, nothing is truer than this: Draw near to God and He will draw near to you (James 4:8). He’s there, and He is able. He will lend you some strength. He will lend you some courage. He will equip and inspire.
Yes, life can be awfully cruel at times, and in the waiting, and in the processing and in the figuring out, if all one can do is to concentrate on breathing in and breathing out, then that’s just fine. Because you’re not breathing alone. He’s not letting go, dear one. He’s not letting go.
(words in italics not mine, but David Crowder band lyrics to ‘Never Let Go’)
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