it was our first Thanksgiving without Larry. i wrote to work through my pain and ask for your prayers. it helped, thank you.
i was comforted. our Thanksgiving was different, but we were blessed with supernatural peace. we were held.
but i couldn't get that song out of my head and out of my heart. i'd heard it before, i'd even heard it performed live by some friends at their church. i knew the words and i got the meaning. it's a beautiful song.
it literally rang in my ears the whole day that i wrote that post and it has not left my head since.
Natalie Grant is singing it to me.
and if you're suffering the loss of a loved one, she's singing it to you.
Held
by Natalie Grant
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 has changed and
Why should we be saved from nightmares
Were asking why this happens 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 that when everything fell
We'd be held
This hand is bitterness
We want to taste it and
Let the hatred numb our sorrows
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 that when everything fell
We'd be held
If hope if 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 that when everything fell
We'd be held
