wilderness

In the wilderness I wander.

With each step I ponder,

Of a time long past,

When life it seemed, was fonder.

This season I’m in,

It’s cold and it’s grim.

The heartache has grown,

It fills me to the brim.

This promise land, where is it?

This desert place has hid it.

I stumble through dry bones,

The thorns are thick within it. 

There seems to be no end,

To this dry and weary land.

I search for signs of life,

But all around me is barren.

I’m all out of sorts,

Lacking any kind of course.

I’m stuck in the valley,

The valley of remorse.

In the desert things will die,

Things no longer can survive.

Things like doubt, things like pride,

There is nowhere for them to hide.

So this journey full of pain,

May it teach, may it train,

My heart to rely,

Solely on your name.

Things are not what they seem,

I am walking by your stream.

Though the valley’s full of shadow,

I’m in the shadow of your wing.

Though I hunger and I thirst,

At your table I am served.

Your blessings, they are mine,

It’s my enemy that’s been cursed.

Remind me of your heart,

I can’t see it in the dark.

Though your grace seems at an end,

Show me that this is just the start.