Sunday, August 12, 2012

Your Hands

I realize that it's been a while since my last post.  I've been spending more of my time practicing my guitar and learning how to play Christian music myself.  I often try to write about songs here that are moving me at the time...sometimes it's because they are new songs, or perhaps it's one of those old ones that I draw on when times are tough.  There's a song that I've been returning to this last week because we have a close family member in the USA that is battling cancer right now.  It's breaking our hearts that we are not home to help her and comfort her.  But it is comforting for me to know that she is in God's hands during this crisis.  Here's "Your Hands," by JJ Heller.
I have unanswered prayers
I have trouble I wish wasn't there
And I have asked a thousand ways
That you would take my pain away
You would take my pain away

I am trying to understand
How to walk this weary land
Make straight the paths that crooked lie
Oh Lord, before these feet of mine
Oh Lord, before these feet of mine

When my world is shaking, heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave your hands

When you walked upon the earth
You healed the broken, lost and hurt
I know you hate to see me cry
One day you will set all things right
Yeah, one day you will set all things right

When my world is shaking, heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave your hands

Your hands that shaped the world
Are holding me
They hold me still
Your hands that shaped the world
Are holding me
They hold me still

When my world is shaking, heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave you
When my world is shaking, heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave
I never leave your hands


I leave you today with a Psalm that has grabbed my attention upon reflection of this song.

You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.  You hem me in behind and before, you lay your hand upon me. 

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.  Where can I go from your Spirit?  Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.  If I rise on the wings of the dawn if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

Psalm 139: 1-10