Midi: "Prayer"
Composer: Yuko Ohigashi |
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Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried:
Quietly, patiently, lovingly
God replied.
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate,
and
the Master so gently said, “Child, you must wait”.
 “Wait?
You say, wait!,” my indignant
reply.
“Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!
Is
your hand shortened? Or have you not heard?
By Faith, I have
asked, and am claiming your Word.
 My
future and all to which I can relate,
hangs
in the balance, and YOU tell me to WAIT?
I’m needing
a ‘yes’, a go-ahead sign,
or even a
‘no’ to which I can resign.
And
Lord, You promised that if we believe
we
need but to ask, and we shall receive.
Lord, I’ve
been asking, and this is my cry:
I’m weary of
asking! I need a reply!”
Then
quietly, softly, I learned of my fate,
As
my Master replied once again, “You must wait.”
So
I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut,
and grumbled to God,
“So, I’m waiting...for what?”
He
seemed, then, to kneel, and His eyes wept with mine,
and
He tenderly said, “I could give you a sign.
I could
shake the heavens, and darken the sun.
I could raise the dead,
and cause mountains to run.
All
you seek I could give, and pleased you would be.
You
would have what you want - But, you wouldn’t know
Me.”
“You’d not know the depth
of My love for each saint;
You’d not know the power
that I give to the faint;
You’d
not learn to see through the clouds of
despair;
You’d not learn to trust just by knowing
I’m there;
You’d not know the joy of
resting in Me
When darkness and silence were all you could
see.”
“You’d
never experience that
fullness of love
as the peace of My Spirit descends like a
dove;
You’d know that I give and I save...(for a
start),
But you’d not know the depth of the beat of
My heart.
“The
glow of My comfort late into the night,
The
faith that I give when you walk without sight.
The depth
that’s beyond getting just what you asked
of an
infinite God, who makes what you have LAST.”
“You’d
never know, should your pain
quickly flee,
What it means that “My grace is
sufficient for Thee.”
“Yes, your dreams
for your loved one overnight would come true.
But, Oh, the
Loss! If I lost what I’m doing in you!
So,
be silent, My Child, and in time you will see,
that
the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me.”
“And
though oft’ may My answers seem terribly late.
My
most precious answer of all is still,
‘WAIT’.”
Author:
Russell Kelfer
(1933-2000)
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