If I'm Willing

This is going to sound dramatic. But it is. It's come up on the WAJ board and in conversations with Sue about how interesting it is that some songs we write are for what we are about to experience. A 15 year old boy in our town drowned two weeks ago. He had just accepted the Lord a couple of weeks before that. His parents and a lot of his friends didn't know the Lord. While we were ministering to the family, I unconciously began to hum the song that Donna, Joel, and I wrote. Jay (who was with me) asked what the song was. I started telling him about it. It hit me in that moment how it fit the context of this situation. Last weekend His parents and a friend gave their lives to Christ. They are dealing with this tremendous loss from a different perspective now...in Christ. Jay shared the song with the family and they want me to sing it at the memoial service. Here is the lyric

Every struggle, every pain,
Days with tears that poured like rain
Every bitter disappointment I have tasted
Every trial, every care,
Days I'm lost and unaware,
If I give it to the Lord he will take it

(Chorus)
It's not wasted if I'm willing
To surrender to His healing
I know that there's a purpose and a plan
He's fulfilling if I'm willing

It's amazing that he would
Turn my story into good
After all the many times I've kept him waiting
So I'll bring my heavy trial
With a faith just like a child
When I lay it at His feet he will take it

(Bridge)
To be held by the hands that took the nails
Oh the anguish and the pain He must have felt...It's not wasted

Even if the song never gets cut, it is already fullfiling the ultimate purpose.
That's what it's all about!
Phil Mehrens