Written May 2003

You have a sorrow like a tear filled ocean
You have a laugh which makes the mountains quake with joy
You have a kindness inviting as sunrise
You have an anger like the fury of the winds

but no one can complain
that You're not moved by the things You see

You have a whisper soft as a sea breeze
You have a shout which cracks like thunder through the sky
You have a patience long as a lifetime
You're a surprise like the flowers through the snow

but no one can complain
that You're not moved by the things we say
but no one can complain
that You're not moved by humanity

You have a silence bleak as the desert
You have a dance like the the starlight on the waves
You have a smile warm as the sunshine
You have regrets cold as birdless winter skies

but no one can complain
that You're not moved by the things we pray
but no one can complain
that You're not moved by the depth of our pain

This song was written with the concern that many people have a hard time relating to the emotions of God. Some of us consider God as too angry, and others feel that He is too distant and unresponsive. Yet as I consider Creation, I discover a rainbow of emotions being communicated through the natural revelation which expresses God's character.

Rather than being frustrated by the fact that God may express anger as an emotion, or patience as a perceived over-used virtue in times of crisis, I am comforted by seeing expressions of so many of these emotions in nature. So it is that I see God as a friend. He is smiling with me in my joys, and crying with me in my sorrows. God is angry just, as I am, at the oppressions and hypocrisies which fill the world. Sometimes as a True Friend these emotions may even be directed towards me, because He desires my best, and knows that I am capable of better.