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As we look ahead to our text for Sunday, this song came to mind. It’s entitled Dear God, by the band Monsters of Folk. I feel like it really honestly and gracefully asks a very difficult question.

Make it full screen, if you can. And lyrics are below, if you’re interested.

Dear God, I’m trying hard to reach you
Dear God, I see your face in all I do
Sometimes it’s so hard to believe in
Good God, I know you have your reasons

Dear God, I see you move the mountains
Dear God, I see you moving trees
Sometimes it’s nothing to believe in
Sometimes it’s everything I see

Well I’ve been thinking it out
And I’ve been breaking it down without an answer
I know I’m thinking aloud, but if your love’s still around why do we suffer?
Why do we suffer?

Dear God, I wish that I could touch you
How strange sometimes I feel I almost do
And then I’m back behind the glass again
Oh God what keeps you out? It keeps me in

Well I’ve been thinking it out
And I’ve been breaking it down without an answer
I know I’m thinking aloud, but if your love’s still around why do we suffer?
Why do we suffer?

“We are a beautiful letdown, painfully uncool,
The church of the dropouts, the losers, the sinners, the failures, and the fools.”