Forever Simple

It's the plan, you see, the plan!

Creation subjected to frustration: the plan

Men bound to disobedience: the plan

My sacrifice foreknown : the plan..."

"I know, I know,...let it be...

But Lord!

I had to learn, yes , to learn..."

It had to be, I could not have foreseen it

It was the only way

"The brokenness, the brokenness...

Forgive me, Lord

That's how...that's how..."

"Shhhh...

But Lord, I...

That they would not receive me?

I made you like me, how would you feel?

I poured out all of myself for them

But only a few wanted me

I'd plead, I'd wept, I'd rebuked

But they would not come

And even they abandoned me in the end

No matter how much I fed or healed or taught

So many refused to come

And that day I was utterly alone

Even my dearest were distant that day..."

It did not matter that I knew it would be so

"Do you understand that when I died

I was deeply hurt and disappointed?

Then he said it, the unfathomable

"Everything spoke to me

Father is everywhere, you know

I am everywhere, we are the same..."

How, Lord, how did you do it?

As was always Our plan..."

There was beauty: I was among them now

A wisdom in a business transaction

A lesson in the stroke of a file

There was meaning in everything

"Deep... it was deep...

More, Lord, more please, what was it like?

They were lost

There were lakes in their eyes..."

They needed me: I could see them

They were empty, they were longing

"Very," he said,"but I loved them...

Was it hard?

I knew it was coming"

They needed, they were hurting

"Heavy...it was heavy...