You give and take away.

We sang this song tonight at youth. It's a song I've been singing almost as long as I can remember. It's followed me through awkward seventh grade, rebellious eighth grade, insecure freshman year, apathetic sophomore year, stressed junior year and senior year - which no one word can really describe - I feel like I would need a really loaded, multifaceted word, and I can't really think of one.

But this song has never really hit me quite like it has tonight. The words have become complacent, routine, and unimportant. But not tonight. I needed to hear this. God gives, and God takes away - but above all else, HE is in control, HE is sovereign, and HE is good.

Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name

Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name