Jordan Mentz

The storms in my life seem to be upon me…So many times I tend to get discouraged…I didn’t know what to do but i tried hard on my own…I was getting discouraged…when I heard your voice…calling out to me…Take courage…in this world you will have trouble…but in me you will find true peace…calmness for the journey…For I have overcome the world was what you told me…

I tried to understand…the comfort in your words…I looked at the waves of this life…and have seen where they have tossed me…I lost my focus…on what I knew was true…I closed my eyes and cried…for someone to come and save me…Then you came…out of the stormy sea…told me not to be afraid…told me that it was for a reason…this world has its’ troubles…

Even though I can’t see right now…I trust and hope for a future…a heart of pure contentment…and a life with peace throughout…I tried to say I love you…but all I could get out was ahhh…I wanted to tell you how much I need you…but I couldn’t get past myself…A docile hand of a Savior…gently stroking my face…a voice asking where I had been…

33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33 (NIV)

Hearts ablaze with love and no passion to fuel it,
hurts so bad because I have remained open for so long
I saw my heart from beneath the icy surface
putting my emotions out there and letting the world shatter my dreams

This broken image of what it means to be human,
a twisted perception of what it means to love
A misconstrued persona of what it means to respect others
An ice cold lake that so many people fall into

A heart on ice, if not taken care of is of no sacrifice
People want to tell me, not to wear my heart on my sleeve,
I can see where they’re coming from but does it make a difference
The warmth of hearing your father say “I love you my child”.

As I look to the heavens, my vision clouded by the tears in my eyes
I was crying out for something, someone to hold my shaky hands
I have seen so much pain, and I am familiar with hurt
But you have spoken healing over me my love

On the cross, while on calvary thinking of me and bidding me to come be with you
I didn’t want to take the first step because I was trembling
But you have my tears in a bottle, and my sorrows recorded in a book
A book I had written full of hurt and pains, but when you read it you see healing and blessings.

You know how this heart of mine is broken
You know why this life that I live is inclined to turn back and sin
You felt all my pain on the cross, and you carried my shattered life
Piece it back together, together in your book, and read it back to me.

Tears in a bottle forever stained and penned in your book of life
I may see the book as a life of hurts and pain, but in the end it will bring me hope
I wrote the words with my tears, and I gave you my deepest hurts
Skeletons in my closest, you brought into the light and taught me to learn to trust.

Psalms 56:8
You keep track of all my sorrows.[a]
You have collected all my tears in your bottle.
You have recorded each one in your book.