Girl, Father, Savior

When you left, I never quite understood why.
The winds picked up and clouds filled the sky.
Girl, I just wouldn’t understand, or I just couldn’t see
That when I hurt you I was also hurting me.
You stayed around though encouraging me to learn a better way.
I think of you daily. I owe you something I can’t repay.

You always found the big in the small.
When I threw you out, you still loved me, and I saw
It was by your thread of love that you sewed my sore,
And I am sure it is you I want to live for.

When I was little, I wanted to walk in your shoes and fly under your wing,
But day to day I run so far from your fathering,
I see myself going up the same paths; they’re pretty steep,
I wish I had taken your advice Dad. I often cry before I sleep.
Out on my own, I am wasting away; it is getting old.
I yearn to grasp the strong hand that I used to hold.

You always found the big in the small.
When I threw myself out, you still loved me, and I saw
It was by your thread of love that you sewed my sore,
And I am sure it is you I want to live for.

I am finally planted in the hollow of Your hand.
I found a girl that knows You and I’m her man.
I have raised three kids, and they have families of their own.
It is scary how straight a crooked man like me has flown,
I see You under the lintel with your open arms and I smile
As my nephews carry me in a box down the pew-skirted aisle.

You always found the big in the small.
When I threw you out, You still loved me, and I saw
It was by Your thread of love that You sewed my sore,
And I am sure it is You I want to live for.