January 24, 2011

• Suffocating Heart

  Yesterday some very, VERY close friends of mine experienced a tragedy.
  They are in intense pain, therefore, so am I.
  My heart aches alongside them.
  Their 4 month old baby, Seth died unexpectedly.
  Doctors assume it is SIDS.
  SIDS cannot be explained or prevented.
  It just happens.
  I don't know why it happened to them.
  I hate that it happened to them.
  Not that anyone would ever deserve such a tragedy, but especially not this family.
  They just deserve the very best happiness... not this.
  I couldn't shake my sorrow yesterday.

  I can only rest knowing that God is sovereign and good.
  Seth is in the arms of Jesus.
  Despite their present pain, Brian and Angie are also being held closely in the arms of Jesus.
  I still don't understand it with my frail human mind... but I don't need to.
  Praying for them has become a priority for me.
  If you could say one for them too, I'd appreciate it.

  * * *

  I am haunted by my love for comparison
  My fascination with a single common theme
  And I am hounded by the fear that I might be losing it
  Slipping from reality into dream
  
  When my mind is muddled by the way it seems to work
  I start looking for just one connecting Force
  Someone to assure me we that didn't lose the war today
  That the battle's General's still riding on his horse
  
  In the mornings when I pray, I've often come to You with dreams
  Little bits of power that I can't comprehend
  And sometimes I can keep my eyes unclosed for long enough
  To see the blowing of a distant steady Wind
  
  The distance doesn't take too long for You to cover it
  And when You reach me, You just blow these things apart
  You clear the crowd that's gathered 'round the crisis of my soul
  And whisper to my suffocating heart
  
  "And" is the juice of the joints of the motion of life
  "And" is the love that is between God and His beautiful wife
  "And" has two hands and two feet and a long, lovely side
  "And" rose three days after He was crucified
  
  So You're the Force of gravity that I feel pulling at my feet
  You're the Fuel at the center of the sun
  And, it's your Ghost that fills the atmosphere with what we need to breathe
  And, everything I've ever wondered, You're the one
  
  Both my hands are stained with blood
  And both my lips are stained with tears
  From when I kissed the widow of the man I killed
  And, yet You're asking me to swallow Your forgiveness here today
  You say the bond required for my pardon's been fulfilled
  
  "And" is the juice of the joints of the motion of life
  "And" is the love that is between God and His beautiful wife
  "And" has two hands and two feet and a long, lovely side
  "And" rose three days after He was crucified

  - "And" by Waterdeep
  

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