43 - A Song for Courage

Reaching out for wholeness is such a struggle. Coping with treatments and changed schedules, changed days and nights. How can we ever face this new life we did not choose? Reach out for help in your climb to wholeness; reach out for God’s hand.

Forty-Three

A Song for Courage

Reach down for me, O Eternal,
To draw me up beside You;
Coax me away from anger and fear,
Beckoning forward, climbing higher.

Grasp tightly as I grope above,
Bind my heart to You.
Place my hand upon the sturdy branch
That eases the climb to You.

For You are the sure Hand
Beneath my elbow,
Guiding my steps as the
Blind are guided.

You are the Light
Shining through dark branches,
Illuminating the ascent
Through strangling vines.

You are the steady Voice
That recalls me from my confusion
And bids me order my days,
That I might turn to You in wonder.

Recall me, recall me, sing my name
That I might hear Your welcome;
Lift me, turn me, to breathe fresh air
Above the forest canopy.