Day Two: Your Hands

JJ Heller is an incredible artist.  I actually had the pleasure of hearing her in concert and meeting her before her career took off on the radio.  She's a friend of Young Life, a ministry that was instrumental in coming to Christ and that I have been intimately involved with for some time.  She serves as a musical guest at Young Life camps during summer camp assignments, and I've gotten to meet her in such a setting.  (Similar thing happened with Brandon Heath - apparently YL helps musical careers :) ).  Not only do her lyrics captivate, she and her husband are extremely entertaining in person!  Anyway, this is one song of hers that I feel fills in the blank when I'm searching for words to pour out my heart.  You can listen here:

I have unanswered prayers

I have trouble I wish wasn't there

And I have asked a thousand ways

That you would take my pain away

You would take my pain away

I am trying to understand

How to walk this weary land

Make straight the paths that crooked lie

Oh Lord, before these feet of mine

Oh Lord, before these feet of mine

When my world is shaking, heaven stands

When my heart is breaking

I never leave your hands

When you walked upon the earth

You healed the broken, lost and hurt

I know you hate to see me cry

One day you will set all things right

Yeah, one day you will set all things right

When my world is shaking, heaven stands

When my heart is breaking

I never leave your hands

Your hands that shaped the world

Are holding me

They hold me still

Your hands that shaped the world

Are holding me

They hold me still

When my world is shaking, heaven stands

When my heart is breaking

I never leave you

When my world is shaking, heaven stands

When my heart is breaking

I never leave

I never leave your hands