HIDDEN GRIEF

Lonely the valley where sorrows reside
Emptiness lingers with darkness inside
Light that once shone from the heaven's above
Leave only phantoms once flowing with love.

Where is the joy that once brightened my day
Who is the thief that has painted life gray?
Silence and sadness have torn it apart          
No one can fathom the grief in my heart!

Distractions in time are so often a pain
Vacations and parties are transient and vain
The promise is given and vict'ry is won
When faith reaches up to the God three in One.

Jesus has borne all our grief and its loss
There is no burden His love cannot cross
Take up His yoke that is easy to bare
Resting in Him will remove all your care.
B. Pent

HIDDEN GRIEF

How lonely the valley where sorrows reside

Where emptiness lingers with darkness inside

The light that once shone from the heaven's above

Is nothing but shadows once flowing with love.

Where is the joy that would brighten each day

Who is the thief that has painted life gray?

Silence and sadness have torn it apart           

No one can fathom the grief in my heart!

Distractions in time are so often a pain

Vacations and parties seem also in vain

The promise is given and vict'ry is won 

When faith reaches up to the God three in One.

Jesus has borne all our grief and its loss

There is no chasm His love cannot cross

Take up His yoke that is easy to bare

Resting in Him will remove all your care.

B. Pent

LET ME CRY ON YOUR SHOULDER

Loneliness met me this morning

Life seemed so empty and gray
Time came along to torment me
Leaving me helpless all day.

I was afraid to go further
Walking this valley alone
Fear and despair my companions
Seeking for grace to be shown.

Then I called out in my anguish
Out of the depth of despair:
"Is there a hand that can rescue
Will you come answer my prayer?"

Please let me cry on your shoulder
Help drive this darkness away
Then I will stand in the sunlight
Knowing real joy for the day.
--B. Pent

RUNNING ON EMPTY?

Why does my heart seem so empty

Even when life looks so good?

Why does the mist in my spirit

Take such control of my mood?

Is it perchance I am searching

For phantoms just out of my reach

For something to fill up a longing

That no one in this life can breach?

The pot at the end of my rainbow

Seems always to vanish away

Each time that I reach for a nugget

I find nothing coming my way!

Then a small voice seems to whisper

Like the sound from a morning dove

“Nothing compares with the offer

Of God’s indescribable love!”

So next time I find my heart empty

For something to fill up that space

I’ll go to the One Who has promised

To give me His fullness and grace.

--B. Pent

WRAPPED IN LOVE

You wrapped Your love around my heart
As I stood in the cold.
You filled my life with happiness
And brought me to the fold.
And so I lift my soul in praise
To glorify through endless days
That blessed name of Jesus.

You wrapped Your love around my heart
And loosed the chains of sin.
You freed me from all emptiness
Sweet peace now dwells within.
And so I lift my soul in praise
To glorify through endless days
That blessed name of Jesus.

You wrap Your love around my heart
Each moment of the day.
You go before the path I take
You know the narrow way.
And so I lift my soul in praise
To glorify through endless days
That blessed name of Jesus.
--Ben Pent