For years I’ve wanted to write a song like this.  Actually I thought I’d have to write two or three songs to encompass my feelings about some of my life’s experiences.  But a couple of years ago, somehow things were dislodged in my heart where I could distill what I wanted to say about it all into one song.  The first verse talks about my feelings at the deaths of my two brothers, who both took their own lives.  I’m sure many can relate to the feelings of this verse with the death of a loved one or a life-alterating event.  I also apply it to events in my last 10 years of marriage in changes that have occurred in the situations that we began with, being a full-time mom to my two stepsons.  The second verse talks specifically about my parents’ divorce when I was 18, and I’m sure you can apply it to many different situations in your lives—I have.  The third talks about things that sometimes I just don’t understand, and changes that occur that sometimes leave me feeling without something to hold onto that’s permanent. 
We know that Christ is the source of all healing and help.  As we turn to Him, He will heal us
Events and experiences such as these, though, can leave us wounded, aching, and longing for certainty.  Even though we may have faith in Christ’s power to heal and make it all right, we may have to plead and trust, for years even, to be healed and to see things as He see them.  Though we have these trials come into our lives that leave us with wounds and questions, the over-riding question is, will we deal with it Christ’s way or another way.  Christ’s way may not immediately remove the doubts or ache or troubled hearts.  But His way will provide peace and stability as we struggle to get over the remaining effects, and eventually as we come to Him with broken hearts and contrite spirits, He will provide the healing—the wholeness—we have been seeking.  That process may take months—it may take years, and it may take a lifetime.  But it will come. 
All through that process we can keep in our hearts the knowledge that there will be that someday, when we see with perfect clarity how it all fit into His plan.  But until then, it is for us to keep faith in Him, so that His Spirit will help us live so we can faith in Him and be with Him on that someday, even when we cannot see now, even when we don’t know now and can only have faith.  That faith provides us the sure anchor to keep us steadfast when the world around us is in commotion, when we wonder what we can hold on to.  We don’t want to leave Him when we need Him most, even if the help doesn’t come in ways that take the hurt and the doubt away right now.  If we stay with Him, living to qualify for the Spirit that can strengthen our faith and trust in Him, we will experience joy now, even as sometimes life and pain is still real and hard, knowing there will be that someday.