Lyrics
God what's it like as a father,
Expressing curiosity about the experience of being a father from God's perspective.
Watching your children destroying eachother?
Questioning the emotional impact of witnessing one's children causing harm to each other.
Though darkness is not dark to you.
Acknowledging that darkness or difficulties are not hidden from God's understanding.
God, how do you hear them,
Inquiring how God perceives and listens to the multitude seeking healing.
Everyone telling you, asking for healing?
Noting the widespread plea for healing and the dynamic role of the spirit in the process.
Spirit heals all that is spirit.
Highlighting the spiritual healing of matters related to the spirit.
Do not burn with fearful questions
Advising against being consumed by fearful inquiries, considering them as honest messengers.
They are only honest messengers
Emphasizing that questions should not be feared, as they serve as truthful messengers.
Do not burn simply for someone said
Cautioning against burning emotionally due to mere words, especially those encouraging extreme actions.
""Set yourself on fire.""
Referencing a phrase, "Set yourself on fire," advising against blindly following such destructive suggestions.
All the wrongs,
Acknowledging the existence of wrongs and hurts.
Every hurt,
Recognizing and addressing every form of hurt.
All the lies used to subvert,
Pointing out the prevalence of lies used to undermine.
All the shame,
Acknowledging feelings of shame.
All the guilt,
Acknowledging feelings of guilt.
Swept away as river silt.
Describing a cleansing process, comparing it to river silt being swept away.
Every falsehood every mask,
Highlighting the removal of falsehoods and masks.
""For with him there is no past""
Quoting a statement, "For with him there is no past," emphasizing the absence of a condemning past with God.
Doubt is but a shadow cast,
Characterizing doubt as a fleeting shadow, again emphasizing the absence of a condemning past with God.
""For with him there is no past.""
Reiterating the idea that with God, there is no condemning past.
There is mercy for the foundling
Assuring that mercy is available for those considered as foundlings or abandoned individuals.
You have not been by him abandoned
Reassuring that one has not been abandoned by God.
This love carries through all your wand'ring
Describing the enduring nature of love, symbolically written in blood, emphasizing its eternal existence.
Written in blood; it was, it is, will be
Reiterating the eternal nature of God's love through past, present, and future.
It was, it is, will (forever) be.
Emphasizing the perpetual and unchanging nature of God's love.
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