Monday, January 28, 2008

Songs of Hope and Comfort

When I lost April Baby I made myself a cd of songs that comforted me and gave me hope. I offer them here in hopes they do the same for another. I listened to them again and again. They are written on my heart.
1. It Is Well With My Soul
2. The Love of God (Rich Mullins)
3. Never Alone (Barlow Girl)
4. Bound to Come Some Trouble (Rich Mullins)
5. Beauty From Pain (Superchick)
6. I Belong To You (Barlow Girl)
7. Verge Of A Miracle (Rich Mullins)
8. I Have To Believe (Shelly Massey)
9. So Are You To Me (?)
10. Hold Me Jesus (Rich Mullins)
11. Hard To Get (Rich Mullins)
12. All The Way My Savior Leads Me (Rich Mullins)
13. Every Season (Nicole Nordeman)
13. Held (Natalie Grant)

Held is the one I kept on repeat. The words are:
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 is change and why should we be saved
From nightmares
We're asking why this happened
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 want to taste it
Let the hatred know
Our sorrow
The wise hand opens slowly
To lilies of the valley and
Tomorrow
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
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.

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