This year tried its best to rob so many of us of hope.
“All Your ways are good” might be one of the most overused Christian Cliches’ about God. I’ve been there too and rolled my eyes at the thought.
Finding myself on the other side of the tragedy of widowhood; experiencing both horrific loss and miraculous healing, I can now sing these words with a deep honesty. They’ve been tested to the brink and found bedrock true.
I write music to help carry you through whatever life throws your way. This past year threw Covid our family’s way. For 9 months our daughter was in and out of the hospital courageously battling covid-related complications.
Hard is an understatement. But I can’t find a single moment when God failed to provide.
Many of our friends have also gone through intense challenges. As I wrote this song I had their faces in front of me. I was looking at these images (shared in the video) as I interceded for them. This song began as a prayer for our daughter and quickly morphed into a prayer for all of us who are hurting and longing for hope and healing right now.
In our culture we have grown to idolize comfort, where I believe God is more focused on growing our compassion and capacity for His grace and love.
Tragedy can rob us of so much, but it can also be a great teacher if we choose to respond to it with hope.
Hope is a choice long before it’s an emotion.
Grace precedes hope. God precedes grace. He’s the initiator.
When we respond to God’s grace, He empowers us to choose hope over despair.
I wrote this song early one morning while our daughter was in the hospital. I was crying out to God, clinging with every last bit of hope I had left, begging God to heal her. The words of Psalm 23 fell into my heart along with a deep sense of God’s faithfulness to which I responded:
“You walk with me through the valley
Immerse me there in Your blessing
Your grace and love chase after me
All Your ways are good.”
All things are not good, but all things ARE redeemable. God can redeem anything and anyone. He is able to bring good out of even the most terrible tragedy. Because goodness is His very nature.
It might not happen as quickly as we’d like. It might look different than we expect. But it will most definitely be immersed in love and goodness.
When our hearts are weary the best thing we can do is worship - not because we’re trying to get something from God, not because He needs our coddling to feel good which in turn would convince Him to help us. No. We worship because it changes our perspective off of what is weighing us down and on to the only thing, the only one that can truly lift us up - our creator God.
Worship is our most powerful weapon. Throughout history, as we read God’s word we see this example over and over. Worship precedes the battle, the musicians are first to march to war. Worship precedes the healing and the break through. Worship cuts through the muck and gets to the heart. Healing begins in our hearts.
So I wrote a worship song. It’s been my fight song that’s kept me going during the challenges of this year. This is my declaration of faith even when it’s hard to see. This is my declaration of truth even when my strength is failing. This is my hope that’s carried me through so much, through everything. God’s love is tangible and near. His faithfulness tested over and over and never once found lacking.
I sing these words with all that have and offer them with all that I am in hopes that this song helps provide voice to your longings, lifting up your weary heart to experience and understand more of God’s goodness and love intended for you. It’s not just some nice idea to get you through the day, it’s a deep certainty that He loves you and He is good and longs to express the fullness of that goodness to you.
No matter what life throws your way, God will continue to throw His love over you and immerse you there with His blessing, even when…
Listen to Even When everywhere you stream music.
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EVEN WHEN
I know that You are faithful
I know that You are with me
I know that You’re the healer
The solver of all mysteries
For You always provide
And all Your ways are good
You walk with me through the valley
Immerse me there in Your blessing
Your grace and love chase after me
All Your ways are good
Even when it’s hard to see
And when my strength is failing
These dry bones will still wake and sing
All Your ways are good
(C) Kellie Haddock 2021 / ASCAP 910841226 / CCLI 7171343
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