Lyrics...Natalie Grant

This is a song that has just recently been recorded and getting some air-time by Natalie Grant. The song is titled "Held," and I've been listening to it nonstop since I got the track a few days ago. It talks about suffering and how sometimes we think that as Christians we should be exempt from pain. But we're not. The promise was not that life would be smooth sailing, but that when everything dear to us falls apart, betrays us, crashes and burns, leaving us alone and trembling in the pile of ashes, that He would still be there. In my small life, I have had some suffering. But I cannot begin to compare it with some of the things either my friends or people I've known have experienced. But I can promise one thing: I have been held by the everlasting arms.

"Two months is too little. They let him go. They had no sudden healing. To think that Providence would take a child from his mother while she prays is appalling. Who told us we'd be rescued? What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares? We're asking why this happens to us to have died to live? It's unfair.

"This is what it means to be held. How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life and you survive. This is what it is to be loved, and to know that the promise was when everything fell we'd be held.

"This hand is bitterness. We want to taste it and let the hatred numb our sorrow. The wise hand opens slowly to lilies of the valley and tomorrow.

"This is what it means to be held. How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life and you survive. This is what it is to be loved, and to know that the promise was when everything fell we'd be held.

"If hope is born of suffering, if this is only the beginning, can we not wait for one hour watching for our Saviour?

"This is what it means to be held. How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life and you survive. This is what it is to be loved, and to know that the promise was when everything fell we'd be held...This is what it means to be held."