The Dark Silence of God
by R.E. Slater
Where is God when I needed him?
Why was there deep silence to my pain?
Why does He lock me out the heavenly doors?
Where was His saving hands in my horrors?
Why, O Lord, does the evil man prosper?
Why does this world suffer under evil men and their wicked deeds?
Why are children killed, harmed horribly, without God's help or saving intervention?
Why does sin have its day to harm and bring evil?
Why was there deep silence to my pain?
Why does He lock me out the heavenly doors?
Where was His saving hands in my horrors?
Why, O Lord, does the evil man prosper?
Why does this world suffer under evil men and their wicked deeds?
Why are children killed, harmed horribly, without God's help or saving intervention?
Why does sin have its day to harm and bring evil?
Yea God, you would bring goodness and love into this world of pain.
Thy creation was made good and loving. In Thy love you gave us freewill.
A will to do good or to do harm. A burden too great to bear alone without You.
Though we seek you from the enemies of life yet there are those who are evil.
A will to do good or to do harm. A burden too great to bear alone without You.
Though we seek you from the enemies of life yet there are those who are evil.
Who take life and breath and rob our days of fullness, of joy, of mere gladness.
Who take and keep our lives bound in senseless chains of carnage.
These enemies are no friends of ours, nor of Thine, dear Lord.
Only misery and grief are our constant companions all the day long.
We thirst for salvation. We cry out to you, O God, yet you do not save.
Where art Thou, dear Lord? Why have you fled our homes and families?
Abandoned us to evil doers who bring death to our souls and loved ones?
These, God, judge, and hold each accountable their wicked deeds.
Bring to us, dear God, your Spirit's hands and feet of healing.
Save us from life's many harms and afflictions. Protect us against the evil day.
Bring back our dead, our loved ones, our losses. May we find joy and song.
Who will judge for you and prevent evil men from their evil?
Who will tell the people to rise up against the terrors of the land?
Who might spare us nature's rage. Its black waters, dry lands, and violent winds?
Help us Lord to listen to one another. To bring peace and love against the evils of the day.
Who might spare us nature's rage. Its black waters, dry lands, and violent winds?
Help us Lord to listen to one another. To bring peace and love against the evils of the day.
Send to us men and women of peace. Whose tongues and hearts speak wisdom.
Who seek the lost to help and to save. Who might shepherd a lost people on lost lands.
For we, O Lord, are Thy hands and feet. Help us Lord to live your presence.
Help us send Thy merciful Spirit into the lives of those groaning for help and mercy.
We, who live as living scars and broken lives upon lands unfeeling and unholy.
Hear, dear Lord, our cries. Bring to us, O God, the salvation of your peace.
Bring to us your daily love assuring us you are there and will not remain silent.
These things we pray dear God from the depths of our tears, our losses, our pains.
These things we pray dear God from the depths of our tears, our losses, our pains.
And then I remembered in my silences when pain could neither lift hand nor spirit.
Perhaps Lord, our silences and your silences are the same, overcoming heart and soul.
Overcoming us amid the horrors set all around. Overwhelming us in heartache and grief.
Perhaps, Lord, your silence and our silence must be bourn together as each for the other.
Remember us, O Lord. Remember. And may you and your people be silent no longer.
R.E. Slater
March 5, 2021
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