Hope

How do you keep it together when it's not together? When pieces of the puzzle are scattered about like shards of dust? How do you keep moving when everything is standing still? Still like a statue which knows not that time passes by? How do you keep praying when there is deafening silence? Silence that cuts deep like a vengeful knife thrown by a brute foe? Hoping when hope deferred makes the heart sick? A sick heart is heavy to carry like stones of heavy burden How do you breathe under the deep dark waters of circumstances? Hold your breath and hold on to straws, the futility of despair How do you rejoice when saddened by reality? Count it all joy when joy is lost? Hold on when you are slipping away? Away like sands in an hour glass. Walk in the light when the night is dark and full of terrors? Smile when the smile is swallowed in a frown? Dance when the music is gone and turned into a din of confusion? How do you answer the questions when answers are elusive? How do you stop asking the questions When the questions are demanding an answer? I do not know what to do But my eyes are on you Lord He is able to save from the fire But even if he doesn't My hope will forever cling to him Questions burn like a furnace But in the inferno Jesus stands with me And all I need to know Is that he is here with me And because he is who he says he is All things will work together for good