Empirical faith

Some days, the waiting gets more tiresome, and the dreams seem farther away; the fears pound harder, and the faith dims a little.

And yet I know that it is during such times that I'm being held the closest -- carried in His arms. Blind faith? No -- mine is largely empirical. Never once has He let me down; I have no reason to believe that He ever will.

I thought that I was all alone, broken and afraid
But You were there with me
And I didn't even know, that I had lost my way
But You were there with me
Till You opened up my eyes, I never knew
That I couldn't ever make it without You

Even though the journey's long
And I know the road is hard
Well, the One who's gone before me
He will help me carry on
And after all that I've been through
Now I realize the truth
That I must go through the valley
To stand upon the Mountain of God

As I travel on the road You have led me down
You are here with me
And I have need for nothing more now that I have found
That You are here with me
I confess from time to time I lose my way
But You were always there to bring me back again

Sometimes I think of where it is I've come from
And the things I've left behind
Well, of all I've had, what I posess
They can't quite compare with what's in front of me

-- "Mountain of God" by Brown Bannister and Mac Powell