revived from calamity

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities

will revive me again;

from the depths of the earth

you will bring me up again.

Psalm 71:20

Lord, You have made me see

many trials and calamity,

losses amid catastrophe.

What I thought would never be

came to me.

“Why did You do this to me?”

My soul pleaded to be free

from all trouble brought to me

as grief rolled like a sea

drowning my soul in this calamity.

I rode the waves less than buoyantly,

head just above water I could not see

that Your hand was always reaching out to me

guiding me over stormy sea

keeping me alive in the catastrophe.

But then You helped me see

You were carefully staying over me

so thus guided even in this calamity

nothing would destroy me.

I would become stronger… eventually.

You brought me from troubled sea

to stand on the shores of eternity

and breathtaking glimpses of what is ahead of me

now fill this soul of mine with ecstasy

because now, revived from calamity, in Jesus I am free!