"At last I believe and soon I will know"

Nightfall in the Garden

for my friends Steve and Amber

I sacrifice my loneliness to you
I offer it wrapped in my hollow heart
Since lonely dreams lifted only come true
When hope learns trust so the healing can start

Lifting empty hands is all I can do
When the heart is pure and the only cure
Is reaching the impossible by faith
Through unrelenting striving toward the light
As from the struggle love brings life from death
Beneath the stars where flowers bloom in the night

I stand at nightfall in the garden now
Back from this morning a lifetime ago
To find such light as the dark will allow
At last I believe and soon I will know

Lifting empty hands is all I can do
I sacrifice my loneliness to you

+Steven Curtis Lance



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