The days are getting longer, heavier, darker.
This season, the darkness, is difficult for many people.
When the sun doesn’t rise early anymore, and she sets sooner, it makes getting up more difficult. It makes living through the everyday harder.
The fall mist sets across fields, and all our eyes can see is grey. Literally.
Days are rainy, wet, and ugly.
This fall brings many of those days. It brings a heaviness with it. It brings a darkness with it.
And you know, winter is yet to come. The truly long, truly dark, truly cold days are around the corner and it will get harder and darker before you will see more light at the other end of this great cycle called seasons.
Maybe this is your experience. Maybe seasons itself make life more difficult for you. Maybe, you are currently in a season where it seems like all light is drained out of your day, and you can’t see clearly where you’re going because it’s all just a gloomy grey around you.
Maybe, you know that before it will get better, it will get harder. Before these days get lighter, there will be many days that will heavier. Before these days get brighter, they will get darker.
Maybe you are not sure if, this time, the days will ever get brighter again. Maybe you are not sure if, this time, you are going to make it through.
Maybe you think you won’t.
Then this, my friend, this is for you.
This song, just for you. Today. Right now.
Let me assure you: God is with you. God sees you. God is good, and His goodness will never fade away.
I know, sometimes it doesn’t feel like it. But let me believe for you right now: He is with you through all those dark winter nights.
Let me assure you: He is here. He cares.
He truly cares.
I know, you might feel alone. I know, you might not feel like He is there, or that He cares.
But God is there, even if you don’t know it, or don’t believe it, or don’t feel it.
So, put your trust in Him. Because He really does see. He really does know.
His goodness will never fade away.
And let me tell you, even though I sound sure of it right now, I wasn’t always sure of it. I am not always sure of it.
This song – I wrote it from exactly that place, from a place of despair. During a time when I wasn’t sure. And I wrote it because I needed to hear those words.
And I sing it, because I still need to hear those words sometimes.
Because, sometimes, I just need to assure myself: He is with me, even through the coming long, hard, dark winter nights.
And He’s with you, too!