Breaker & Healer

Author's note: I don't write songs much and I don't consider myself much of a song-writer - certainly not gifted in it, but when I do I try to break the sentence where there's a pause in the music or a note is held.  That's why it may look kind of funny.  This one I wrote this morning at church when Psalm 66:3-4 was read, so I guess its loosely based on that passage, though as I look at it there's a number of different Psalms it could pertain to...  Anyway, I - hope its at least encouraging. :)

On my knees

I'm bowing down before You

In my need

I lay myself bare

You have known

Every struggled I've faced

And every time I've fallen down

You've been there

Every tear that I've cried You've shared

In this storm

The rain falls down around me

In the sky

The lightning reaches out

And as the thunder rolls in me

I'm here on my knees

Begging for your mercy and peace

CHORUS

You are the God who placed the stars

Whose wise enough to break my heart

And put me back together again

You're strong enough to make the sea

Yet you calm the raging storm in me

Oh God

You're the breaker and healer of me

You perceive

When I sleep and when I rise up

And You know

Exactly what to say to my heart

You can see

Every wicked way in me

And You know

How far I have wandered from You

Lord I give

My soul and self up to You

And though the changing may break me

You'll wholly remake me

And walk me through the journey always

CHORUS

You are the God who placed the stars

Whose wise enough to break my heart

And put me back together again

You're strong enough to make the sea

Yet you calm the raging storm in me

Oh God

You're the breaker and healer of me

BRIDGE

You hold me together

Or I'd fly apart

You let me cry

But hold me until I fall asleep

Repeat CHORUS

You are the God who placed the stars

Whose wise enough to break my heart

And put me back together again

You're strong enough to make the sea

Yet you calm the raging storm in me

Oh God

You're the breaker and healer of me

God's Words

Author's Note:  Not much of one on this.  Last night, I was reminded of some things that God was saying to me just last week.  Confirmation is sweet.  And how very, very precious the words of Christ... Thought it might be encouraging if I posted it.

"I took Moses through the desert.  I took Elijah and John the Baptist.  Paul went through so many catastrophes he couldn't write them all.  I went through the desert myself... I went to be tested, to be refined, to strengthen my resolve, and eventually to be restored.  The desert was where I asked my questions of God, where the others did as well.  It was also where He answered us.  It took away all our earthly distractions, heightened our senses, stripped us bare of all but the essentials of physical life - but of spiritual life as well.  It forced us to look hard at ourselves and realize who we truly were; who we were in the world and also who we were in God's eyes.  I make pathways in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.  I make a way when there is no way.  It is with good reason that I gave you those passages in Isaiah for your favorites and presented them to you at a time when nothing was more true for you.  There is STILL nothing more true than this.  And nothing more true than that I love you, I will never leave you, and and I have an amazing purpose for you so grand your mind can't even imagine it.  I will not abandon you until the work I have begun is done.  'He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it in you.'  Trust in that.  Trust in Me.  I have walked down this road before, I would never set your feet to it if I had not seen it before and determined that you were strong enough to come out the other side.  And you will come out stronger on that other side, even as you have done before. 

Do not measure distance with your eyes.  Measure it with your heart and with your memories of my faithfulness.  This is just another page, the next phase of the journey.  Greatness measured by my standards has nothing to do with what the world's definition of greatness looks like.  You must keep your hope in Me, and define 'success' and 'greatness' in Me alone."

Note: Wow.  What did I do to deserve to hear these beautiful words from God?  Absolutely nothing.  'Generous' isn't nearly a strong enough word for Him.