SOMEONE'S WALKING ON THE WATER TOWARD YOU NOW

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith & Life for the Years of Winter

 

[Pick any tune you wish, but "Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There" works pretty well. Almost...] 

I was washed off by a fierce and evil wave

I was sure the ocean deep would be my grave

Without a single friend, I knew it was the end

Then I heard a voice shout full against the wind

 

Don’t give up. Keep holding on.

Until the darkness ends and night is gone

The current is so fast, you think you cannot last

But someone’s walking on the water toward you now

 

Two arms full of nothing was all that I could grasp

A gurgling cry for help was all that I could gasp

Then a hand within the darkness pulled me to a drifting mast

and I heard a voice call in the storm so vast…

 

Don’t give up. Keep holding on.

Until the darkness ends and night is gone

The current is so fast, you think you cannot last

But someone’s walking on the water toward you now

 

When light came with the dawning and the darkness was all past

I looked on every side to see who had pulled me to the mast

There was no one close at hand but in the distance I could see

Someone walking toward a sailor just like me

And I called…

 

Don’t give up. Keep holding on.

Until the darkness ends and night is gone

The current is so fast, you think you cannot last

But someone’s walking on the water toward you now

 

John Robert McFarland