Flags by Brooke Fraser
Come, tell me your trouble
I'm not your answer
But I'm a listening ear
Reality has left you reeling
All facts and no feeling
No faith and all fear
I don't know why a good man will fall
While a wicked one stands
And our lives blow about
Like flags on the land
Who's at fault is not important
Good intentions lie dormant
And we're all to blame
While apathy acts like an ally
My enemy and I are one and the same
I don't know why the innocents fall
While the monsters still stand
And our lives blow about
Like flags on the land
I don't know why our words are so proud Yet their promise so thin
And our lives blow about
Like flags in the wind
You who mourn will be comforted
You who hunger will hunger no more
All the last shall be first
Of this I am sure
You who weep now will laugh again
All you lonely be lonely no more
Yes, the last will be first
Of this I'm sure
I don't know why the innocents fall
While the monsters stand
I don't know why the little ones thirst
But I know the last shall be first
I know the last shall be first
I know the last shall be first
My thoughts
One of the greatest ladies in the world...Mrs. Vicki Tipps...shared this song with me this weekend and the words hit me like a ton of bricks...kinda left me holding my breathe until the song was over because the words are so piercing. She shared this song with me at the perfect time.
Last night...Gentry shared with me that the surgery didn't help Abigail's right hip. I can't imagine how Gentry and Matt felt as they got this news...how incredibly frustrating for her to go through the surgery and therapy and it not work the way it was suppose to. Honestly...I was angry...I watched her go through the pain, I watched Gentry and Matt work together for months upon months to take care of sweet Abigail (while she was in the cast, taking care of her was a two person job while in the cast), I watched them work together to figure out how to give her a bath with the cast on, I watched them figure out how to get her in and out of the car safely, I watched them help each other change her diaper so that she would be in the least amount of pain as possible, I watched them figure out the exact way to make Abigail comfortable in the crib so she would be able to sleep well, etc.... Unless you were in the house, you can't imagine what a trial this was for them all and to hear that her right hip didn't do what it was suppose to do and that she may have to face surgery again made me angry...I mean real angry but then I listened to this song again and held my breathe through the whole song again and this is what I got out of it...
I don't know a lot of things, I don't know many answers, I don't know why some things happen the way they do, I don't understand why Abigail's sweet little right hip has to still be out of place after all she went through but God reminded me that I don't need to know the answers and I need to just call out over Abigail and the rest of these amazing children exactly what I do know and that is...
You who mourn will be comforted
You who hunger will hunger no more
All the last shall be first
Of this I am sure
You who weep now will laugh again
All you lonely be lonely no more
Yes, the last will be first
Of this I'm sure
I don't know why the innocents fall
While the monsters stand
I don't know why the little ones thirst
But I know the last shall be first
I know the last shall be first
I know the last shall be first
And then...I just need to leave the rest up to God.
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