Chris' prayer: Kutless' "Down"

I've listened to this song over and over, trying to find some meaning in it for my life. Various thoughts have floated into my head, but one has stuck with me: we do not know what happens to the girl. We hear all about her sadness, her pain, her depression, her frustration...but we are offered only a glimmer of hope of what *could* happen. Not what does happen–at least not in any real, quantifiable way– but what could happen.

The song ends like this:

She wants to fly away from this.
Only God knows how to fly away from this.
He will show her how to fly away from this.

We never hear that she did fly away. We never hear that her emptiness was filled, that her pain has subsided, that her problems are fixed. Despite God knowing how to take away all her pain, and despite Him showing her how to give it all to Him, we never hear if she did or not.

I know that I hold onto my struggles all the time. Despite hearing, and even believing, that it would be much easier and healthier for me to let God handle them, here I sit, still holding on tightly. I know that, no matter what I am struggling with, He is big enough to conquer it, that His love covers all things. I hope that one day, the song of my life will not be "unfinished," as I feel this one is. I pray that my song will show the result of handing over to God all that He can handle.


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