Even If

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With God,
We don’t have to redact our wrestlings,
Airbrush our mascara trails,
Mute our howls of anguish,
Bury our fears.
Whatever the heights or depths
Of our feelings,
He can bear them.
Whether I jump for joy
Or collapse on the closet floor,
Sobbing,
Or pound puny fists on His chest,
He invites me to come
In all my raw reality.
Even better,
He desires me to come;
He treasures my tears in his bottle,
Records my sorrows in His book,
Dances with my joys.
He is brighter than my darkest days,
Bigger than my heaviest burdens,
Eternal in His love and mercy and
Justice and holiness.
Because He is the Lord
And my Lord,
Joy is my inheritance forever,
Even if the earthly worst should come
For now.
“Though the fig tree does not bud
And there is no fruit on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though the flocks disappear from the pen
and there are no herds in the stalls,
yet I will celebrate in the Lord;
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
The Lord my Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like those of a deer
and enables me to walk on mountain heights!
For the choir director: on stringed instruments.”
‭‭Habakkuk‬ ‭3‬:‭17‬-‭19‬ ‭CSB‬‬