a lament

Beautiful lament from Sunday's worship:

After the Worst That Could Happen... Did

There is nothing left to say now

I have struggled as much as my emotions can bear

I have fought with the demons of doubt and despair

and there is nothing left to say now.

There is nothing left to do now

My emotions are drained and my body feels weak

I open my mouth, but there's nothing to speak

There is nothing left to do now.

There is nothing left to pray now

I have cried tears through my fingers, my head in my hands

I have given my will to what You would command

and there is nothing left to pray now.

There is nothing left but this silence,

the sound of my breath in the still of the room.

Finally my heart is quiet

Finally my mind is quiet

But I don't know if you'll enter this empty silence.

Make these bones You have broken rejoice

Make this heart that has broken rejoice

Make this soul that is broken rejoice

Oh, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice in the LORD

Because only in Him do we know

that what's broken will soon be redeemed

and only in Him can we know

that the worst is never quite what it seems.

Oh God, help me shout alleluia

Let me cling to the shreds of the hope You have given

--the comfort that is meant to save--

Let me cling to it, praising,

knowing that You were raised from the grave.

Build from these ashes a cathedral

Build from this brokenness life

and with Your comfort, kind Jesus, sweet Spirit,

Take my hand, make me fully alive.

We worship the God of resurrection

We worship the God of resurrection

We worship the God of resurrection

and we sense, in our sorrow, redemption.

--Amy Moffitt