Casting Crowns - Does Anybody Hear Her

I heard this song today on K-Love Christian Radio station. I know I've heard this song before, but today, I HEARD this song. It stopped me in my tracks and the noise from the every day life seemed to fade away. Some times, you can wonder if anyone hears you...does anyone see..(as the song goes) the pain or burden in your heart that follows you every day. I know that it is a terrible feeling to go to church with such grave pain in your heart and give it your best effort to try and hold it together and "look happy" like everyone else does. You try to sing, but all that comes are tears. Rarely, if ever, does anybody "see" those tears that you cry and all it would take, sometimes, is some one's hand on your shoulder or arm around your neck, to show that they care. There are so many people that carry pain around in their hearts every day for innumerable reasons, I hurt every day. I'm not ashamed of that. I have come, however, to a place that I know there is no pain too great for God to heal. No choice that you could make that would make Him turn His back on you. That's the reason for the Cross! The very blood that He shed the day they nailed Him to that Cross, as people made insults, called Him names, spat upon Him....that blood, that He shed on that day, is for all of us. It's God's love that gave His Son so that we could find hope, peace, and faith in our every day lives. This life is not meant to be lived alone, it's meant to be lived with The One Faithful & True Friend...The One who will love you, no matter what. As you read the words to this song, know that God loves you....He will never leave you or forsake you...



She is running
A hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction
She is trying
But the canyon's ever widening
In the depths of her cold heart
So she sets out on another misadventure just to find
She's another two years older
And she's three more steps behind

Chorus:
Does anybody hear her?
Can anybody see?
Lord does anybody even know she's going down today?
Under the shadow of our steeple
With all the lost and lonely people
Searching for the hope that's tucked away in you and me
Does anybody hear her?
Can anybody see?

She is yearning
For shelter and affection
That she never found at home
She is searching
For a hero to ride in
To ride in and save the day
And in walks her prince charming
And he knows just what to say
Momentary lapse of reason
And she gives herself away

Chorus

If judgement looms under every steeple
If lofty glances from lofty people
Can't see past her scarlet letter
And we never even met her

If judgement looms under every steeple
If lofty glances from lofty people
Can't see past her scarlet letter
And we never even met her

In His Grip!