Just want to share the following song, written by a friend of mine. Another Taylor guitar user!
Beautiful
I will trust in You
And believe through the darkness
Still Your light shines through
Through fears and tears
I still trust Your soveriegn hand
Will see me through the years
When all hope is swiftly stripped away
Only Jesus Christ restores in a new way
By making all things beautiful
I look to heaven and await my redemption
Make me beautiful
Lord, make me tender as my will I surrender
In my brokeness I give myself to You
And believe Your grace restores my life anew
I must not despair
As I feel the burden of the cross
I have to bear
Though all hope seems lost
I must yield myself before the
Power of the cross
When all joy is swiftly stripped away
Only Jesus Christ restores in a new way
Hold my hand, hold my heart
Lord, keep me near to You
Though I stumble and fall
You will hear me when I call
By making all things beautiful
Told for His glory a wonderful story
He'll make me beautiful
A simple parable of the God who is able
Lord, my shattered dreams I lift them all to you
And believe Your grace restores my life anew
I believe Your grace restores my life anew
(C) Words and Music by Sherman Kwek
We often desire for God to make us better people, beautiful in every way. But we forget that the creation of beauty takes a miracle, and that miracle is called "pain". It is only he who possesses the ability to internalise and transcend above the power of pain that truly is a beholder of an authentic beauty of the miraculous kind. In God's scheme of life-formation, pain is a necessity in the creation of beauty.
