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Your eyes are determined to look straight ahead
Your mind is thinking about what was said
The pounding heart within your chest
Hurts from sorrows and no rest
Who can know the pain you feel
Hiding in your soul of steel
Walls around you hide the tears
And now you’re running from your fears
… On runner’s way
The ground is pounding underneath your shoes
And with every step, you will to choose
To live in quiet desperation
To deny the pain and the exasperation
… On runner’s way
And you don’t know that God can see
The little girl inside you
That once was free
You don’t know the things revealed
And that God can see what is concealed
The little girl within your mind
And heart and soul will help you find
The place of revealing
Where you can find healing
The place of memories long ago
Before life’s storms took their toll....
And now as you travel on runner’s way
To your mind will be revealed
What God has to say:
In her mind she sees dark clouds drifting on a summer’s eve
Forming a tapestry that the night sky weaves
And a little girl stands alone - ‘neath the full moon’s light
Being overshadowed by dark clouds on a lonely night
She walks through a park by the swings so still
The breeze blows her hair and she cries until
The tears bring the cold into her cheeks
As she thinks of the past and the trying weeks
When no one would push her on a swing
When no one would love her in spite of everything
When no one could see the real person inside
When she couldn’t explain the feelings she would hide
And now dark clouds cover the moon
Over where she stands alone…
But then she sees the Ancient of Days come along
Beside her
Gently talking to her, and singing a song
She sits in the swing and he pushes her up high
Into the clouds, into the moon, into the air and he begins to say,
“Swing up and down, Swing up and away
I see beauty in you in every way
I see the moon smiling back at you tonight,
As you laugh and swing in the moonlight
You feel like you’re weightless and that you could fly
As I push you again way up in the sky
The clouds are all gone now that covered the moon
The joy fills your heart as I sing you a tune
The past doesn’t matter and it can’t pull you down
You’re flying too high to listen to the sound -
Of words from the past that haunt your day
Of thoughts that would hurt you –
… on runner’s way.”
…There is a girl on runner’s way
Whose smile changes the sky to blue from gray
There is a girl on runner’s way
Who needs to hear something every day
That she is precious, that she is wonderful,
That she is loved and is a jewel,
That on any night that she is sad,
I will push her in the swing, in the moonlight, until she is glad
And she doesn’t need to run away
From the past or memories or things people say
And she can run and laugh and find joy each day
And know that she is loved just the way she is – on runner’s way.
“For I know the plans that I have for you, says the Lord, plans for good, and not for evil, plans to give you a future and a hope.”
Jeremiah 29:11
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