1 When life's crippled, flawed or faulted,
Filled with fear, with folly strewn;
God is here, yet never thwarted,
Loving in dark sorrow's womb;
God is in each widow's anguish,
God is queuing unemployed,
God will in the prison languish,
God will love, not be destroyed.
2 When work's clamour, noise and chaos
Brings the stress that drags us down;
God is here identifying,
Praying with us as we groan.
When our love and life are battered,
When our strength is all but sapped,
When the way ahead is shattered,
Still within God's love we're wrapped.
3 Love and folly, cross and kindness,
Echo all we know within;
Jesus challenges the blindness;
Penetrates deception's din;
Builds again where all seemed shattered,
Holds us when we fear or fall,
Takes what's left of life, though tattered,
By His love renews it all.
Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 1991 © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd.
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Tune: BETHANY; ABBOTS LEIGH; COMFORTER
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