Music Speaks

Music can speak deeply to our hearts even when most other things cannot. One of my favorite musicians is Michael Card, because many of his songs do touch the deepest places of my heart. All the songs from his CD "The Hidden Face of God" (2006) do that for me because the theme is “lament.” In my work with you, I share your lamentations and he spoke my feelings in these songs. Read these first lines of several of the songs: • Once there was a soul [Job]so full of shadows that hopelessness was all that he could see…

• How long will You forget, O Lord, How long, How long? How I long to see Your face, O Lord. How long will You hide?…

• In Eden, the darkening garden was still, unwet by all the tears from the sky. The burden of that disobedient bite brought all the tears the fallen world would cry. The unwelcome tears that they never had known coursed down their fallen faces in surprise All they ever had seen was the light of His face but now that sin had entered in, their tears would fall like rain…

• We are not scattered strangers We are one we are free Though we have broken faith and divided we are one family It’s time we wept together…

• It’ll drive a man crazy; it’ll break a man’s faith It’s enough to make him wonder if he’s ever been sane When he’s bleating for comfort from thy staff and thy rod And heaven’s only answer is the silence of God…

• Didn’t see You [God] there. Didn’t know You were weeping too. I think of tears as a human wound Though, of course You care, You’ve shown you were human too…

• If you are wounded And if you are alone If you are angry If your heart is cold as stone If you have fallen And if you are weak Come find the worth of God that only the suffering seek. Come lift up your sorrows and offer your pain. Come make a sacrifice of all your shame. There in your wilderness, He’s waiting for you To worship Him with your wounds For he’s wounded too

He has not stuttered And he has not lied When he said “come unto me” You’re not disqualified. When you’re heavy laden You may want to depart But those who know sorrow, they’re closest to His heart. Come lift up your sorrow…

Mr. Card knows sorrow and expresses it so well. You might have recently said something very much like one of those lines. He is coming to Lancaster to perform a benefit concert (Oct 1) for the ministries of Handi*Vangelism. If you can come from where you are, COME! (details elsewhere in our website). If you can’t be there, get the cd. Through his music, the Lord has touched my heart where it hurts the most. Let the Lord use the music to bless your heart too.