the silence of God

These words have been running through my head all day. They speak when I can't...

It's enough to drive a man crazy; it'll break a man's faith

It's enough to make him wonder if he's ever been sane

When he's bleating for comfort from Thy staff and Thy rod

And the heaven's only answer is the silence of God.

It'll shake a man's timbers when he loses his heart

When he has to remember what broke him apart

This yoke may be easy, but this burden is not

When the crying fields are frozen by the silence of God.

And if a man has got to listen to the voices of the mob

Who are reeling in the throes of all the happiness they've got

When they tell you all their troubles have been nailed up to that cross

Then what about the times when even followers get lost?

'Cause we all get lost sometimes...

There's a statue of Jesus on a monastery knoll

In the hills of Kentucky, all quiet and cold

And He's kneeling in the garden as silent as a Stone

All His friends are sleeping and He's weeping all alone

And the Man of all Sorrows, he never forgot

What sorrow is carried by the hearts that He bought

So when the questions dissolve into the silence of God,

The aching may remain, but the breaking does not

The aching may remain, but the breaking does not

In the holy, lonesome echo of the silence of God.

~Andrew Peterson

I don't understand sudden deaths... unanswered prayers... bleeding hearts. Where is the 'sense' in it? Sometimes there just seems to be silence. But the Man of all Sorrows, He does not forget... He knows.

And one day soon... we'll have the eyes to see and the ears to hear just a little clearer... until we're face to face.