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
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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.