As I write my phone is playing "God Is Good All the Time" by Paul Overstreet. Life has been hard lately. Very hard. Yet God is amazing in His care and love.
A few days ago I was going for a walk with my dog. It had been awhile since I had gotten outside and just walked. I let Gunnar (my dog) lead the way through the woods as I let my thoughts wander. As I walked the same words kept going around and around in my head, almost like a song. But it wasn't a song. It was just words. When I got back to the house I wrote the words down.
I wouldn't consider them a poem or a song because they don't rhyme and they don't have a good rhythm. But I know these words, though written like I were speaking to someone else, were really for me and that God had sent them just when I needed them. These words were/are a balm to my hurting heart. And maybe, just maybe, you need them too.
Oh, weary soul, do you feel lost and empty? Oh, weary heart, do you feel forgotten? Oh, weary one, He knows. Does it feel like no one can understand the things you're feeling? Oh weary one, He does.
He made you! He loves you! He bought you and washed you! Cling to him, oh dear one, He cares.
He fit your parts together. He knows them all by name. He made you to be you and he loves you that way. You may fall and you may fail but He'll pick you up again. Because he loves you, oh weary one.
He made you! He loves you! He bought you and washed you! Cling to him, oh dear one, He cares.
Is the pain deep? Is the fear great? Oh, weary soul, He knows. He made your smile and your tears. He made the sunshine to warm your face but he made the rain to wash it. Through good and bad, He's there.
He made you! He loves you! He bought you and washed you! Cling to him, oh dear one, He cares.
There is nothing new under the sun. Your pain has been felt by the ones who have gone before. You are not the only one. But more than that, He's with you. You're not alone, weary one. He knows.
He made you! He loves you! He bought you and washed you! Cling to him, oh dear one, He cares.
Oh, weary soul, do you feel lost and empty? Oh, weary heart, do you feel forgotten? Oh, weary one, He knows. He holds you now.
Oh, weary heart, this too shall pass. There is nothing new under the sun. This too shall pass.
Oh weary one...
He made you! He loves you! He bought you and washed you! Cling to him, oh dear one, He cares.
The words were powerful to me... And still are. God sent them right to my heart when I needed them. God IS all-knowing and loving. Remember that.
Keep singing God's praises! He has a plan. He loves you. Jesus is our Rock and Salvation. Nothing can pluck us out of His hand.
Damara Nancy
