Monday's Mourning Ministry - My Child's Cries to Her Lord that Night / My Heart is Overwhelmed ~Hillsong Live

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

~C. S. Lewis

Monday's Mourning Ministry

My Child's Cries to Her Lord that Night

My Heart is Overwhelmed

~Hillsong Live

Two days before what was ultimately to be her final day on earth, my 19-year-old daughter Merry Katherine called me. Evidently, my God, in His own inimitable way, had "spoken" to my child in her pain. He had a heart of mercy toward her and her struggles. Her heart had been so torn in her latter days on this earth as she sought to find her way through the morass of her confusion as to the direction she wanted to go. 

God's heart melted toward her, and He led her to call me...

Two days later, she had come back by the house for some of her things, and while she was here, she recorded some music on c.d.s that she wanted to take with her on her trip to the beach with friends for which she would be leaving later that evening. I later found on her desk-top computer here at home the songs which she had taken the time to record on that day, and they were songs of her heart's cry to her LORD. (These were some of the same songs that had been so significant to her in her earlier teens when she had been struggling, and God had met her so sweetly amidst her struggles.) These were the very songs she took with her on what was to be the fatal night that would take her life...

When I heard the following song on YouTube last week, it was as if I could hear what must have been her new cries to her LORD on that fateful night when He rescued her from her demise by taking her into His loving embrace. Her heart was at rest, finally at rest from all her struggles, and she could see clearly with her new eyes…  I would imagine these lyrics are very similar to the heart feelings flowing from her to her God on that night...

My Heart Is Overwhelmed

~Hillsong Live

(What I imagine was Merry Katherine's "song" to Jesus)

Perfect in love

Lord, You came to earth

To rescue me

You took my place upon that cross

The stains that held me back

Were washed away

You made me whole

Your love has set

The broken captives free

Your love released

The chains once binding me

I'm found in grace

In love's embrace

My heart is overwhelmed

I stand redeemed

Your Spirit now alive within my heart

I walk with you all of my days

I shall live to glorify You God

Hear my soul rejoice

Your love has set

The broken captives free

Your love released the chains once binding me

I'm found in grace

In love's embrace

My heart is overwhelmed

Sings my soul of how

Your love has set me free

Sings my heart of how

Your mercy rescued me

Hear my cry of endless love

To my Savior and to my King

My heart is overwhelmed

Sings my soul of how

Your love has set me free

Sings my heart of how

Your mercy rescued me

Hear my cry of endless love

To my Savior and to my King

My heart is overwhelmed

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbbtmmUw490