Life's Drastic Detour

How much more can we take?


This suffering is surreal and lasting so long 

Father please help us, we’re too weak to stay strong 

Some ask for joy and some ask for health 

Some seek great riches and glory to self

I come before you with my face to the floor 

Humbly and broken, Lord, she can’t take much more 

And what must I do, for your healing hand? 

We’ve prayed and we’ve prayed, God, I just can’t understand


But I know that your ways are much higher than mine 

I know that the answer will come in due time 

I am pleading before you with all that I am 

Please ease her pain as no mere man can 

Please give me strong shoulders 

And arms which to hold her 

Give me wise words and silence as needed 

The strength to comfort her in the times she feels cheated

Please tell me her cancer is defeated and gone 

Give her time to rest after suffering so long 

Amen