i trusted in my mother
but she couldn't understand
i trusted in my father
but he let go of my small hand
i trusted in the man
who stood in front of us in church
who opened up the Bible
taught us truth from that high perch
until he fell and broke our trust
brought shame down on his head
i don’t know why he did it
rejecting all those words in red
i don’t know why my father
couldn’t keep a tighter grip
i don’t know how my mother
could have let her kindness slip
then i trusted in the picture
stories cross a flannelgraph
a Sunday school messiah
calling children with a laugh
but he, too, broke his promise
just a picture, one inch deep
he couldn’t stand up to the storm
nor hold me in my sleep
i trusted kings and politicians
put my hope in dearest friends
i watched the chosen on the tv
twisting truth to their own ends
i lost respect and i lost faith
and in the end i lost all hope
for trusting in these human vessels
was like balancing on smoke
holding close my fractured pieces
i huddled, curled up in a ball
every single one i looked to
broke my heart, another fall
and with vision well and blinded
i rocked and huddled in despair
until a tremor caught my eyes
the barest glimmer in the air
from total night there came a star
i watched it, unbelieving, rise
it came on fast and hard and sudden
ripped the blinders from my eyes
my ears near bled from a great choir
bursting down from stairs above
shouting words of peace and joy
and of eternal, changeless love
at once i met the true Messiah
i can’t explain to you my heart
nor how my soul it leapt within me
when He blew my world apart
He was born to burn it down
this baby from the humblest womb
to crush the evil things we trust
and bring true hope out of a tomb
He’s the Lord, our Great Redeemer
solid ground in sinking sand
out of nothing, all we see
came from that tiny, infant hand
after all the things i hoped in
people trusted to defend
i am undone by this small baby
King forever, without end
Have a blessed Christmas my friend.
Jesus-the one and only one to satisfy our deepest needs. “Jesus can down, and glory filled my soul.”