Known & Loved

I know that life is hard –
Believe me, that I do.
Cause this past month has been a fight
Days of weariness, not a few.

At just the right time, truth broke through,
To my weary, wayworn soul—
A whisper of hope, a glimpse of grace,
A reminder that God can makes us whole.

You see, I’m prone to forget.
Remembering is hard to do.
Forgetting God’s grace in my discouragement,
Is what my enemy wants me to pursue.

It can feel like everything’s going wrong
And in my pity, I doomscroll deep.
And then it seems like God is far away,
And life becomes an empty heap.

Perhaps in our exhaustion
We’ve found ourselves drifting away
Or maybe in our discouragement and brokenness,
We’ve felt that we cannot pray.

It feels so deeply true—
But “seems” is the perfect word.
Because “seems” reminds us gently
That we’ve forgotten what we heard.

That things aren’t truly as they seem,
Cause we really can’t see them as they are.
And I can say with all my heart,
That God 100% isn’t so far.

We’ll find that He’s close to our situation,
Close to every tear we cry.
He holds our hands in the darkest hours,
In every low and every high.

We’re told to call upon His name,
To lift up our weary hearts in prayer.
For He is the Friend who never leaves,
In joy, in grief, in every care.

It calls for us to remember
And hold it in our heart true
That God has promised to never leave us.
Forsake us He will not do.

That’s why we’re called to write it down & remember,
Answered prayers & whispers in the night.
For these notes hold the fingerprints
Of God’s redeeming light.

It will help us to see the path He paved,
When we were too weary for the fight.
It helps us to find comfort and strength,
And makes our journey feel more bright.

“Write this down for the generations,”
The Lord once told His own (Ex. 17:14),
Then when the night feels long again,
You’ll know you’re not alone.

 “Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him.” “I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.”  Psalm 62:5, Jeremiah 31:25