Trust me, I've been there, I've looked, I've searched and I know now, that there are no answers to be found in the bottom of a bottle or on the edge of a blade! Fighting Hard, Recovering, Rebuilding, REBORN. Moving on from addiction to a new life.
Walked blindly In a darker world Addiction taken The life I owned Steeling the hope And the light in these bones In shadows shivering As the fears fell No smile No laughter Under addiction’s spell Then the voice spoke Just before the light came To throw wide the shadows To release all the pain No longer down cast The light consumed the soul And now when darkness visits When it fights for my heart I look back to the moment When the voice set me free I may still see shadows But His love brings me hope With Him never consumed When I have His unending love
In the darkest moments At the end of my world To the depths You came To collect this broken soul Miracles within those moments As a dead man rose again A tear I bring as I remember The day that You came And when my darkness returns Where this soul is so downcast I remember to those darker moments When You broke wide my world Where the light came flooding in Still bringing a tear to my eyes My soul is filled with hope again When I remember the day You came
As the fifth anniversary of some of the most defining moments of my life approach, the moments where God broke through all my pain and my hurting, setting me free to live a new life, I remember all those feelings so vividly, all the pain and the tears, but more importantly I remember the moment I woke one morning and realised God had answered my prayer.
EVERYBODY HURTS by R.E.M.
When your day is long
And the night, the night is yours alone
When you’re sure you’ve had enough
Of this life, well hang on
Don’t let yourself go
‘Cause everybody cries
And everybody hurts sometimes
Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it’s time to sing along
When your day is night alone (Hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go (Hold on)
If you think you’ve had too much
Of this life, well hang on
Everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts
Don’t throw your hand, oh no
Don’t throw your hand
If you feel like you’re alone
No, no, no, you are not alone
If you’re on your own in this life
The days and nights are long
When you think you’ve had too much of this life to hang on
Well, everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody cries
Everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes
So hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts
