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It’s a place I’ve been time and time again. Lost.

I wrote this song when I was in high school. Generally high school was not a fun time for me. I found myself (forgive the cliché) drowning: a small invisible hydra in a lake of huge fish. Maybe it wasn’t as bad as I thought, but it’s hard trying to be noticed when you’re surrounded by bigger and better things. So I was drowning. I remember sitting in my ninth grade English class and I think that’s where the process started. I didn’t write the lyrics to this particular song, but I started to write simple poetry. I found that when I wrote things down I could get them out and they didn’t have to be for anybody, but at least the paper would listen. Eventually I started writing in notebooks or on scraps of paper that I’d keep in my pocket. That was the beginning. I wrote this song in one such notebook. Nothing spectacular, just a small yellow legal pad. The first part that came was, surprisingly, the first two lines: In the dark and cold of night, in the shadows do I hide. That pretty much describes where I saw myself: a place where no one else in their right mind would want to be. I didn’t know how to leave. I needed someone to tell me that everything was going to be ok (haven’t we all needed that at some point or another?). That’s what God did. He told me that He had everything under control. The paper listens, the pen talks back. He can use anything to speak to his people. Talk about preaching to the choir, I wrote the words to what would become a song and as I read through it I thought ‘man, this could be really encouraging to somebody.’ Well, it didn’t take too long for me to figure out that I was that somebody.

He made it a personal message to me, and a personal message to everyone else. I lost my dad when I was eleven years old. That’s something that I’ve missed out on-having the love of my Daddy. Near the end of the song ‘I’ (me, you and everyone else who can relate to the song) end up in my FATHER’S arms. Safe. Sound. Surrounded by His warmth, love and peace. Who could ask for more?  I guess He really does know what He’s doing.

Even though I find myself right back at the beginning time and time again He reminds me that He’s got everything under control. Good thing huh?

In the dark and cold of night, in the shadows do I hide.
Running from an unseen hand, falling down and down again.
but I know You'll rescue me, I know that You'll be here
in times of trouble, times of need, I know I need not fear.

'cause You are God.
You are the Alpha and Omega.
You take my hand and lead me through the crashing sea and sandy plains,
and You never let me go because You are my God.

You lift me up out of the depth, quiet me and let me rest;
in Your strength I find my peace, Your Father's heart sings out to me.
I could never comprehend what You see in me,
but in Your arms I will remain where broken hearts are healed again,
no blemishes, no sin is found, the glory of the Lord is all around.

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