Beauty From Pain

Over the years, I have accumulated a fair amount of music from Christian rock groups. The groups I like tend to be more "hard" and often times, until you really slow down the message and listen you may not realize what the message is because you are too busy pounding your fist or banging your head. (I'm a product of the 80's--I apologize) So, I thought that once every couple weeks or so, I would take a song that I enjoy and break it down and explain what I get out of the song. It may not be what the group intended or what you may hear from it--but what I get.

The first song I picked, "Beauty from Pain" sung by the Christian rock band Superchick really intrigues me. It's slow medley conveys the pain of woman going through difficult times but with hope in God and the knowledge that God will take this suffering and turn it into something better--some way, some how. This is a message that we all need to remember because being a Christian is not easy and we are challenged to pick up and carry our cross daily. We, like the singer, need to remember that in our suffering we enter into the suffering of Jesus and beauty comes forth from this.

The singer talks about how everything is crashing in on her. The darkness is starting to settle in on her. She never says what is going on her life which makes the song more applicable to each and everyone one of us. Perhaps it's a lost love. Maybe she is having financial troubles or suffered a death in her family. I think we have all been there at some point where just life just sucks and you don't know how you are going to make it. You question God and ask yourself why he is making you go through this pain.

She someone still maintains hope though. I pray that I would be like that--to be faithful and hopeful when all you want to do is die. She knows that some day she will look back and be able to see how she was made better through all this. She knows she will survive even though the pain has no sign of the pain going away. And it's all because she clings to God that she knows that things will get better.

We need to do this whenever life has crumbled and it seems like nothing will ever be right. We MUST remember that God loves us and will turn beauty from our pain.

The lights go out all around me
One last candle to keep out the night
And then the darkness surrounds me
I know I'm alive
But I feel like I died
And all that's left is to accept that it's over
My dreams ran like sand through the fists that I made
I try to keep warm but I just grow colder
I feel like I'm slipping away

After all this has passed
I still will remain
After I've cried my last
There'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today
Someday I'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

My whole world is the pain inside me
The best I can do is just get through the day
When life before is only a memory
I wonder why God lets me walk through this place
And though I can't understand why this happened
I know that I will when I look back someday
And see how you've brought beauty from ashes
And made me as gold purified through these flames

After all this has passed
I still will remain
After I've cried my last
There'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today
Someday I'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

Here I am at the end of me
Trying to hold to what I can't see
I forgot how to hope
This night's been so long
I cling to your promise
There will be a dawn

After all this has passed
I still will remain
After I've cried my last
There'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today
Someday I'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

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