Your Hands

You ever notice how a song will find you over and over again when you most need to hear it? This song has echoed through my days recently, and its words, though simple, speak volumes. My life is not a disaster, there are people going through far worse than anything I have ever struggled with. But these words provide comfort wherever you are, wherever you've been. The only place to be is safe in His hands, because He is constant, unwavering, unshakable.

Over the last year and a half, I have struggled with lonliness and all the uncertainty of starting over at a time in life when I thought we would be settling in. And despite all my doubts, God has reassured me time and time again that He is indeed holding me in His hands, working out His plan, and loving me with a love only He is capable of. I just need to let go. Karen Owens wrote in her blog once about monkey bars... how the scary part isn't hanging on, it's letting go and falling. What am I hanging on to? What if I just let myself fall? I know where I'd land, so why am I afraid of letting go?

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

I am trying to understand
How to walk this weary land
Make straight the paths that crookedly lie
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

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

Your hands
Your hands that shape the world
Are holding me, they hold me still