A Spring of Joy

I have made no bones about how I love, love, LOVE Jj Heller. I have listened to her music almost daily through the past years. Recently she debuted a new album, Painted Red, and her I’ve been listening to her song, Your Hands, like crazy over the past weeks (not even realizing what an hit it had become on Christian radio, because I don’t listen to much radio.)

I have often written about how His hands are the best place I could be… about the confidence I can have in Him because I know Who He is and where I am. Yes, that confidence has been shaken as the hurricane of my life has swirled around me, but just because I am shaken doesn’t mean truth changes. And while I am crazy over the moon excited that we are cancer free, if the answer had been “No,” nothing would have changed with Him. And when I look to the next 3 months and all that still has to happen medically for me, and when I look at the long road of emotional and spiritual recovery I have ahead of me, I start to quake again and wonder how I’m going to do this anymore.

Then I remember two things:

Who He is.

and

Where I am.

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Song: Your Hands
Artist: J. J. Heller
Album: Painted Red

I have unanswered prayers
I have trouble I wish wasn’t there
And I have asked a thousand ways
That you would take my pain away
You would take my pain away

I am trying to understand
How to walk this weary land
Make straight the paths that crooked lie
Oh Lord, before these feet of mine
Oh Lord, before these feet of mine

When my world is shaking, heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave your hands

When you walked upon the earth
You healed the broken, lost and hurt
I know you hate to see me cry
One day you will set all things right
Yeah, one day you will set all things right

When my world is shaking, heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave your hands

Your hands that shaped the world
Are holding me
They hold me still