Andrew Peterson is undoubtedly the most gifted living Christian song writer. Here is one of my favourites by him 'The Silence Of God' : It's enough to drive a man crazy; it'll break a man's faith It's enough to make him wonder if he's ever been sane When he's bleating for comfort from Thy staff and Thy rod And the heaven's only answer is the silence of God It'll shake a man's timbers when he loses his heart When he has to remember what broke him apart This yoke may be easy, but this burden is not When the crying fields are frozen by the silence of God And if a man has got to listen to the voices of the mob Who are reeling in the throes of all the happiness they've got When they tell you all their troubles have been nailed up to that cross Then what about the times when even followers get lost? Because we all get lost sometimes. There's a statue of Jesus on a monastery knoll In the hills of Kentuck...
Thinking Deeply about Life and Faith