Dr. James MacDonald (Mitch’s pastor and friend)
We’ve Lost a Son!
It’s 3:00 a.m. and my mind is bursting with sadness
I cannot sleep, I only weep?
How can that be? I always sleep?
Even when the my mind is racing, even when my heart has lost it’s song
I’m wide awake, I’m gonna break
We’ve lost a son!
I dropped my own boy off at college today
I didn’t sigh, I didn’t cry?
How can that be? What’s wrong with me?
My son so loved has left the house and altered family feeling for all time
The day of dread, but no tears shed?
We’ve lost a son!
A Pastor sees it all the time
A sister dies a husband flies,
To heaven’s shore, to be with God, and know a joy that’s far beyond compare
But not like this . . .
A grief that flows, and grows and shows,
We’ve lost a son!
No words can say what echoes in the heart
It now appears, our deepest fears
These lines must fail to capture what the human soul can never comprehend
We’re shocked, and rocked . . .
Can time erase, his wondrous face?
We’ve lost a son!
Parents die, It’s part of life!
They leave, we grieve,
And life goes on unbroken, as the cadence of the clock cannot be stopped
There’s no category for this, are you listening? it’s not the same!
Your cliché prone, we’re all alone
We’ve lost a son!
I sense a warming touch upon my spirit
I’m wrong, I’m shown, I’m not alone!
The kind of understanding that can only come from sharing something deep
God’s heart is broken too!
So He’d forgive, so I might live,
He lost a son!
What kind of Father makes this staggering choice?
Only a love , that’s from above
Would crucify heaven’s treasure, so that my unworthy soul could be redeemed
God’s love is Awesome!
Yes now I see, for one like me!
God Gave His Son!
Dr. James MacDonald
(for Mitchell Swaback, died age 23 and the Swaback Family)
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