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Time - 02-17-2011

Jenni's 20th Anniversary

Jenni's 38th Birthday

Life

Untitled New Poem

Tears

I Don't Understand

Longing For Home

Roller Coaster Ride

Faded Time

Good-Byes

I Miss You Most

Illusive Butterfly

Life's Not Fair

Picking Up The Pieces

The Cross

Thoughtless Good-Byes

Threatening Wave

Time

Unfair

Whenever God Seems Far

This Pain I Live With

CHRIST FOR ME, LLC

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Phil. 1:21

This piece started out to being a poem, but as I began learning to play a few chords on the guitar, I changed it into a song.  The transformation from poem to song came about when I needed a special number to sing at a service my pastor and I did at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, WI.  As I pondered what to sing, this poem kept coming to mind.  I felt that the inmates at the prison could probably relate to the words, albeit for a vastly different reasons than what my situation had been when I had written them...so, I set the words to music, and sang the song in public for the first time to the inmates.


WHENEVER GOD FEELS FAR AWAY

By:  Judy A. Andres

Whenever God feels far away ~

Remember He is near.

Whenever you are sore afraid ~

Remember not to fear.

Whenever life seems oh so dark ~

Remember He's The Light.

And if you sink into despair ~

Remember that's not right.

CHORUS:

'Cause Jesus wants to be your friend,

He wants to be your guide.

A very present help in trouble, always by your side.

So right now if you ask Him in your heart,

He'll answer you.

And Jesus will be your friend, too.

VERSE 2:  Whenever no one's listening ~

Remember He still hears.

He knows things you've left unsaid,

And He knows all your fears.

Whenever you have lost your way ~

Remember He's your guide.

Whenever no one stands by you ~

Remember He's by your side.

REPEAT THE CHORUS

VERSE 3:  So if your eyes should fill with tears ~

Remember His did, too.

Whenever you feel so unloved ~

Remember He loves you.

And if you're feeling lost, alone ~

Remember He's the Way.

Whenever everyone has gone ~

Remember He will stay.

REPEAT THE CHORUS

VERSE 4:  Now whenever you feel friendless ~

Remember He's your Friend.

His promises are faithful,

and they will be to the end.

Jesus is The Truth, The Life,

He is The Only Way.

So, open up your heart to Him,

And He'll come in to stay.

 

REPEAT THE CHORUS


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