God what's it like as a father Watching your children destroying each other? Though darkness is not dark to you God, how do you hear them Everyone telling you, asking for healing? Spirit heals all that is spirit Do not burn with fearful questions They are only honest messengers Do not burn simply for someone said "Set yourself on fire." All the wrongs Every hurt All the lies used to subvert All the shame All the guilt Swept away as river silt Every falsehood every mask "For with him there is no past" Doubt is but a shadow cast "For with him there is no past." There is mercy for the foundling You have not been by him abandoned This love carries through all your wand'ring Written in blood; it was, it is, will be It was, it is, will (forever) be