God's Reasons

So I had another poem I've been working on all week but I can't seem to fully express so I set that one aside and pinned this poem this evening. I hope you enjoy it. 

God's Reasons 

3-1-2016

I heard a poet once pen the words

“God has a reason for everything”.*

I waited for those words to sink in.

I rolled them around in my mind,

Like a child with a shiny new marble.

I wanted to know the depth of the poets words.

There is a reason for the wind, the storm, the pain?

A purpose for the broken-hearted suffering I hide away?

A sanity in the midst of my madness?

As the image infused my intellect I let it seep further still.

Past my fortifications, deep into the core of who I am.

I let it sit there alone in the darkness; in the brokenness.

Every conceived answer to the question “Why?”

….seems so forced, so trite.

Still I ask the question, as have you; “Why God, why?”

At times He answers with gentle love, sometimes He is silent.

There is an echo in our sighing and a sorrow in our question.

He knows the agony in our words and felt the sting of their formation.

He knew our anguish, and experienced our suffering.

There is a hope in our listening for the voice of our maker.

There is peace in knowing that we can trust His ways.

There is love in His reasoning, even when we can not see.

*Poet/Song Writer Jason Upton from his song “God's Got a Reason for Everything”