tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189530826656638190.post3214335688621870060..comments2024-02-16T03:59:33.520-05:00Comments on Hope and a Future: RecommendationsAbbie Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138691581410415708noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189530826656638190.post-87012609637495761512009-03-12T10:38:00.000-04:002009-03-12T10:38:00.000-04:00PS-You can listen to it at this Web site for free....PS-You can listen to it at this Web site for free.<BR/><BR/>http://www.jango.com/music/Natalie%20Grant?l=0Jessiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06891274769964467704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189530826656638190.post-36268105750960897042009-03-12T10:33:00.000-04:002009-03-12T10:33:00.000-04:00Abbie, this song gave me a lot of comfort as I was...Abbie, this song gave me a lot of comfort as I was healing from my miscarriages. (It brought a lot of tears, too.)<BR/><BR/>Held, by Natalie Grant<BR/><BR/>Two months is too little <BR/>They let him go <BR/>They had no sudden healing <BR/>To think that providence <BR/>Would take a child from his mother <BR/>While she prays, is appalling <BR/>Who told us we’d be rescued <BR/>What has changed and <BR/>Why should we be saved from nightmares <BR/>Were asking why this happens to us <BR/>Who have died to live, it’s unfair <BR/><BR/>This is what it means to be held <BR/>How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life <BR/>And you survive <BR/>This is what it is to be loved and to know <BR/>That the promise was that when everything fell <BR/>We’d be held <BR/><BR/>This hand is bitterness <BR/>We want to taste it and <BR/>Let the hatred numb our sorrows <BR/>The wise hand opens slowly <BR/>To lilies of the valley and tomorrow <BR/><BR/>This is what it means to be held <BR/>How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life <BR/>And you survive <BR/>This is what it is to be loved and to know <BR/>That the promise was that when everything fell <BR/>We’d be held <BR/><BR/>If hope if born of suffering <BR/>If this is only the beginning <BR/>Can we not wait, for one hour <BR/>Watching for our savior <BR/><BR/>This is what it means to be held <BR/>How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life <BR/>And you survive <BR/>This is what it is to be loved and to know <BR/>That the promise was that when everything fell <BR/>We’d be held <BR/><BR/>(Wow, it still makes me tear up reading it now.)Jessiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06891274769964467704noreply@blogger.com