Fill the void

Don't ask me where this one came form, I was just revising and the first 4 lines came into my mind. I'd dearly love to put this to music, but we shall have to see. I think it's desperately honest though, especially when we find ourselves searching & questioning. I hope you're encouraged afresh that it's Jesus who makes our hearts whole, his grace that gives our lives meaning, and only him who bridges the gap to Heaven's hearth.

Fill the void

'Sometimes it makes you smile,
often it makes you laugh
the pain can make you cry sometimes,
this funny thing called life
is this all its cracked up to be?
emotional mixture no. 10
there's more than meets the eye
to this world of gals and men
sure, the pain can cut you deep,
or those 'better times' can bring some peace,
but a greater urge, desire, shows
that gaping hole; the missing jigsaw piece.

Give it up, give it over,
take that void that haunts your soul,
open up your heart to him,
invite him in, let him make you whole

No matter how much fun and games
and love we try to fill it with,
that hole just seems as deep
as the day we first noticed it
No comfort, pain or thing we get
can dent or fill that void0
that gap in our subconscious,
or quell that voice that calls your name.
A gulf so wide, you cannot cross
canyon deep, a rift in our hearts
no earthly way to bridge the gap
that, unchecked, eternally leaves its mark

Give it up, give it over,
take that void that haunts your soul,
open up your heart to him,
invite him in, let him make you whole

You do not know the love I have
that fills the greatest gaping wound
and takes your heart and makes it whole,
mends it through my son.
Your pain he knew, you suffering too
despised, he knew too well
The joys and pains that haunt your life
he lived, through heaven and hell

He knows the pain, he's known the hurt
but to joy he's made the path
the void you know is bridged by him
from you to heaven's hearth

Give it up, give it over,
take that void that haunts your soul,
open up your heart to him,
invite him in, let him make you whole'