Music

There Is A Reason

Mrs. Orr and I just finished listening to a concert by Allison Krauss & Union Station, a group we haven’t listened to in years. Their final number in the show was one we’d never heard before, a spiritual number called “There Is A Reason.”

I found it so affecting I though I would post it here, with the lyrics below. My favorite part of the lyric is where Allison sings, “I give my heart so easily to the ruler of this world, when the one who loves me most will give me all…”

~ S.K. Orr

I’ve seen hard times and I’ve been told
There isn’t any wonder that I fall
Why do we suffer, crossing off the years
There must be a reason for it all

I’ve trusted in You, Jesus, to save me from my sin
Heaven is the place I call my home
But I keep on getting caught up in this world I’m living in
And Your voice it sometimes fades before I know

Hurtin’ brings my heart to You, crying with my need
Depending on Your love to carry me
The love that shed His blood for all the world to see
This must be the reason for it all

Hurtin’ brings my heart to You, a fortress in the storm
When what I wrap my heart around is gone
I give my heart so easily to the ruler of this world
When the one who loves me most will give me all

In all the things that cause me pain You give me eyes to see
I do believe but help mine unbelief
I’ve seen hard times and I’ve been told
There is a reason for it all

4 Comments

  • Genie

    Well, this one caught my ear today. It’s been running through my head on a loop, especially those last two verses.

    When the night shows
    The signals grow on radios
    All the strange things
    They come and go, as early warnings
    Stranded starfish have no place to hide
    Still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
    There’s no point in direction we cannot
    Even choose a side.

    I took the old track
    The hollow shoulder, across the waters
    On the tall cliffs
    They were getting older, sons and daughters
    The jaded underworld was riding high
    Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
    And as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain
    Was warm and soaked the crowd.

    Lord, here comes the flood
    We’ll say goodbye to flesh and blood
    If again the seas are silent
    In any still alive
    It’ll be those who gave their island to survive
    Drink up, dreamers, you’re running dry.

    When the flood calls
    You have no home, you have no walls
    In the thunder crash
    You’re a thousand minds, within a flash
    Don’t be afraid to cry at what you see
    The actors gone, there’s only you and me
    And if we break before the dawn, they’ll
    Use up what we used to be.

    Lord, here comes the flood
    We’ll say goodbye to flesh and blood
    If again the seas are silent
    In any still alive
    It’ll be those who gave their island to survive
    Drink up, dreamers, you’re running dry.

    • admin

      I had never heard that song before until a few years ago when that bad hurricane (Harvey?) hit Texas, and someone on an NPR show played it. Lovely song, apt lyrics. Many thanks, Genie.

  • Genie

    This goes with my bible reading today, thanks! Here’s a quote back at you. 😉 ❝ Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar… ❞ – William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury.

    • admin

      Lovely quote. The air at certain seasons is like music, isn’t it? It changes keys, and structure, and tempo, and all so subtly that one has to be attentive to it to keep up with the changes.