Give me the faith of a child.
Will I do more harm than good? How will I know what to say? Will I make a fool of You as well?
Again, I cannot sleep. Again, my mind races. Again, I seek answers.
Why am I here? What difference can I make? What is the point?
My strength is so terribly insufficient. Alone, I can do nothing but fail. I am a broken thing.
I remember that age so well. So independent, so desperate for a cause, so passionate. So open. I look at her friends and I think, who do they look up to? Where are those who love her? What has made her so desperate? What has happened to make him so angry? Why does no one help them?
How can I be what she needs? How can I show her how to be stronger than the world around her, to be passionate about the right things, like life, truth, love, hope, faith? How can I help her to stand for what is right? How is it that we are all she gets?
How did our world get here? How did we get to a place where people like Hitler and Hussein come to power? How did we get to a place where genocide is a byproduct of life? How did we, as the "free world", come to a place where we are, as a nation and as individuals, willing to kill our own children to be freed from the consequences of our actions? How do we justify the systematic killing of our own children, the future of our nation, and our sons and daughters whom we've never given a chance to live?
I once heard that as long as you have hope, you aren't beat. As soon as you give up hope, though, it's game over. You've lost.
Is there hope for this world? Are we worth saving?
I will not give up hope yet. I believe that we are worth saving.
I just don't know what I'm supposed to be doing.
Again, I cannot sleep. Again, my mind races. Again, I seek answers.
Why am I here? What difference can I make? What is the point?
My strength is so terribly insufficient. Alone, I can do nothing but fail. I am a broken thing.
I remember that age so well. So independent, so desperate for a cause, so passionate. So open. I look at her friends and I think, who do they look up to? Where are those who love her? What has made her so desperate? What has happened to make him so angry? Why does no one help them?
How can I be what she needs? How can I show her how to be stronger than the world around her, to be passionate about the right things, like life, truth, love, hope, faith? How can I help her to stand for what is right? How is it that we are all she gets?
How did our world get here? How did we get to a place where people like Hitler and Hussein come to power? How did we get to a place where genocide is a byproduct of life? How did we, as the "free world", come to a place where we are, as a nation and as individuals, willing to kill our own children to be freed from the consequences of our actions? How do we justify the systematic killing of our own children, the future of our nation, and our sons and daughters whom we've never given a chance to live?
I once heard that as long as you have hope, you aren't beat. As soon as you give up hope, though, it's game over. You've lost.
Is there hope for this world? Are we worth saving?
I will not give up hope yet. I believe that we are worth saving.
I just don't know what I'm supposed to be doing.
Faith of a Child (partial lyrics)
The O.C. Supertones
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Can you count all the things
that I'm worried about
By the lines in my brow,
I want to trust but don't know how
To rest and be still,
to abandon myself to your will
And I can't figure out
what my time in this world is about
And this time I don't have an answer
But don't think that I haven't tried
I still have the heart of a seeker
But I need the faith of a child
I need the faith of a child
... ... ...
I wanna know what the truth is
and I don't care if its costly.
I know there must be a reason
even if it cannot be known by me.
And this time I don't have an answer
But don't think that I haven't tried
I still have the heart of a seeker
But I need the faith of a child
I need the faith of a child
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