How Fragile My Faith
(chorus)
How fragile my faith
How precarious my prayers
How daring my doubt
Following my footsteps
Just a breath in front of God
Twenty-seven years ago
I made a promise to the sky
Shaking my small fist at Him
I never needed so to cry
"You have never left me,
Never let me get away,
But I have never wanted You
To hold me, 'til today."
CHORUS
I had to take a drive out West,
I had to get away from here
I had to see them face to face,
The few I hold so dear
My sister, crying with me, as I
Wept on her back porch--
I felt so far from God, she said,
"You don't need to anymore."
(bridge)
Is this hand from heaven
Someone I can trust,
Or is it hurting me?
Does He hold me out to dangle
Over the flame,
Or hold me to His breast,
like a child?
CHORUS
How fragile my faith
How precarious my prayers
I'm leaning on grace
The troubled waters of my heart
So need the calming breath of God...