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It’s another long day of sunbeat \nAnd my head feels as worn as the sand \nFrom the sweat on my brow, you could fathom \nHow long I’ve been walking this land.<\/p>\n
For every pain, God heaps another \nUntil my back’s broken under the weight \nAnd for once in my life, I can’t summon \nMy self-pity at my own cruel fate.<\/p>\n
Sure, there’s a God up in heaven \nSure, He keeps watch on me, too \nAnd He piled this great load on me just because \nHe’s got nothing else better to do.<\/p>\n
What else is there for me to say? \nCan I scream hatred at a deity? \nWhere’s the peace that comes with the knowledge \nThat my God’s “watching out for me”?<\/p>\n
Is this all the payment I get \nFor the life I’ve given to Him? \nThey told me I’d have it so easy \nAnd I’d walk the narrow, without sin.<\/p>\n
“Oh my God!” I cry, “Where are you now? \nWhere’s the peace I was promised from You? \nWhen they dunked my head in the river and said, \n‘Sin no more, and do as Christ would do’?”<\/p>\n
“Look at Job”, came the answer, “And see what he did. \nDid he curse me, and ‘lay down and die’? \nIs the life I have given so hung on your joy \nThat you’ll trade the eternal for a temporary high?”<\/p>\n
Can it be? Am I such self-driven skin \nThat I’d lost sight of the goal that I had? \nI’d latched onto the lie that living was now \nAnd it spelled out what else lay ahead.<\/p>\n
O, pitiable fool! O, timeless mistake! \nLift my hands up, and take it away! \nO, my Lord, this life is not mine to live; \nIt’s yours to control- Mine to obey.<\/p>\n
I knew, though it seemed I refused it \nAnd I know without slightest doubt \nThat through suffering, I will break it \nBreak my mind of its unholy drought.<\/p>\n
I offer the life I had thought was all mine \nBurnt and shriveled and wafting on high \nFrom the altar of God I will give Him myself \nA bread and wine sacrifice.<\/p>\n
Water falls and soaks into the dryness \nRuns over my soul’s cracked terrain \nAnd because of the pain, I will triumph \nFrom my offering, Christ brings the rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Bring the Rain - Of Psychology and Psychosomatics<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n