Held Through The Dark

Held Through the Dark

I felt the darkness reaching near,

A shadow whispering my fear,

As if it hoped to call me home

To places I should not have roamed.

It pressed close in my weary night,

A heavy hush, a fading light,

And all my strength seemed spent away

Like dawn that could not find the day.

But when I laid my life in grace,

And placed my heart in God’s own hands,

The storm within began to cease,

And fear dissolved like shifting sands.

He met me in my brokenness,

With mercy deeper than my pain;

He raised my soul from fragile dust

And taught my bones to breathe again.

A strength I never knew before

Rose quiet, steady, deep, and sure;

Not mine alone, but Heaven-breathed,

A light the shadows could not blur.

So now when darkness draws too near,

I do not bow, I do not fear;

For in the Lord I am made whole,

And He has guarded all my soul.