Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Out of Sorts

 

When You Are Afraid To Hope -

Carrying a weight

Feeling hate

Has been for a spate

Just won’t dissipate

 

Having headaches

In an awful state

Fed-up here of late

Nothing to celebrate

 

Fretting about the rain

When it’s sunny, complain

Everything’s a drain

It’s constant strain

 

Little or no taste

No hurry no haste

Routine cut and paste

Just another face

 

In prison in chains

Going counter-grain

No song or refrain

Just like Cain

 

When You Are Afraid To Hope -

 

Afraid to hope

Unable to cope

Down a slippery slope

Headed for a rope

 

Who can advise?

Feeling despised

Anticipating reprise

Wearing a disguise

 

If this is you

Then you must be blue

But here’s another view

And one that’s true

 

He hears you

And sees you too

He knows everything

You are going through

  

He is not unaware

He is right there

He has made it clear

He knows your fear

 

When You Are Afraid To Hope - 

 

Whisper Jesus

That glorious name

Yesterday and today

He is still the same

 

He beckons to you

Before life is passed

Every burden you have

On him to cast

 

He is able

In fact, more than able

Even in uncertainty

To make you stable

 

Trust him today

Come what may

Give him full sway

Do not turn away

 

Stewart Russell © July 2019

 

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