Letters to a Girl

As you climb into bed and pull the sheets high,

The lights are shut off but you don't close your eyes

It's hard to imagine a day more exhausting than this,

You wonder if peace really can exist

All day your mind is ambushed by the same old thoughts,

And every minute is eaten up looking at the clock

Up the mountain of hope you strive

Every step your wonder when this so called happiness will arrive

You build up these walls and try to stay safe

These ancient insecurities are your only exclusive place

You refuse to let anyone know of the exhaustion you feel

Because you're told by everyone there should be no pain, that it isn't real

You're working so hard to be what everyone needs

Yet you're' disgusted to see what you've turned out to be

Something inside has gone terribly wrong

But you'll keep looking the other way and sing the same old song

My Child you have no idea what it is like,

To see the one you love in bondage so tight

I'll whisper to you again and again,

I'll shout to you a story of what you could be instead

You could be free my child, you could be free

You could have the insecurities broken and find true relief in me

Your wrists are bleeding from these invisible chains

I had my hands pierced, I already took away that pain

You are loved without reason and without question

The love you've experienced has been drowned in other's conditions

When failure occurs again and again,

They may leave, but I'll hold you tight instead

Every punishing thought you've laid on yourself,

I want to take away and send down to hell

If you could just see what you really are,

If you could accept that someones has wanted you from the start

I have a plan for your life, I have things stored up for you

The boys may lie, but I have intimacy that is true

They want what you can give them but they're scared of your heart

I've given my all, and can turn a bruised soul into precious art

So my child, you've heard that I died on a cross

You've dismissed me as myth, even when I've shown myself in the night across

Only you know the brokeness in your heart,

Only I can give a Father's healing art

So choose me today, choose to believe

I've given enough proof for a faith that's complete

If you think you've ached for someone before,

We can talk about my agonizing love for a child lost in life's war

Every night as you lay in your bed,

And ignore a heart that's practically dead,

Your Jesus will be dong everything he can

To bring you into a love that has always been planned