Heavy

Dear Lord Jesus

My heart is weighed down

Can’t look away

For there is no “safe” town

Headlines scream for attention

Outcry rises above the spin

Same song, different verse

But still we fall to sin

We rant, and we rave

Make laws and pass bills

But hearts we can’t legislate

So still we swallow bitter pills

No solution comes to mind

And no relief is in sight

Some hide in their despair

No hope comes without light

Triggers and ammo

Carbon and steel

Inanimate objects

Just can’t feel

Who is really at fault?

Always blame to anoint

But it’s never that easy

Always another viewpoint

Try as we might

With longing we may strive

The solutions are elusive

Never seem to arrive

When our hope is in ruins

Each answer becomes a question mark

And each win turns to failure

How did the World become so dark?

Can the answers ever be found?

Or is destruction all that’s left?

Families divided and fighting

Of our civility we’re bereft

So hard to see the sun sometimes

But, out of the weeping comes a song

And out of the silence comes a whisper

Prayers seeking for the peace we all long

And, if we pray, there is someone listening

To repentant hearts His ear turns

So my prayers have changed

Raised up to our maker as the World burns

No longer praying for leaders alone

My heart cry is for a changed nation

For the lost and longing

For despair reborn to elation

So Dear Lord Jesus

May the heartbroken find peace

May their joy one day return

And may their tears one day cease