Forgiveness

Painting by Rob Northampton

When you swim against the tide

  It's hard to reach the other side

   When you hold onto the hurt

      It makes you sick inside

       Like following a storm

  When you're tired of the rain

      Wounds can never heal

   Until you let go of the pain

     Longing for an apology

     But you're the only one

Who can lay it down before Him

     And have the battle won

     You know forgiveness

  God forgives you every day

     And all he asks of you

Is you forgive in the same way

     Letting go of anger

     Is the dawn of a new day

     God loves us so much

        And there's no price for us to pay

    I was hurt so deeply

       It changed my life in many ways

   I laid it on the altar

  Now I walk away

       Praying for one who caused such pain

      What only Christ could help me do

    The battle's deep inside

    As I let go, He makes me new

     The power of forgiveness

     Shines a light so deep within

     I pray His presence is felt

     That it touches those sins

     The wounds are finally closing

     And the door behind me too

     Love no longer hiding

     As I move on to chapter two

     The rainbow after the storm

     Such brilliant shades and hues

    The clouds are moving aside

     As the sun comes shining through

     -2004-