Come Into This Room

Lord, we do not know how to fix this room.
We are tired, we are honest, and we are here.
Before we ask for answers, we ask for nearness.
So we pray the only prayer we know: come into this room.

There's a photo that we turned to face the wall,
There's a number that we still can't delete,
There's a song we don't play out loud no more
Since the day the ground fell out beneath our feet.
Grandma prays behind a closing door
While the young ones scroll the dark alone.
Everybody's holding something heavy,
Everybody's carrying a stone.
So we don't need a louder sermon (not now),
We don't need another song —
We just need You to come and sit here
In the middle of what's wrong.

Not for answers, not for proof (not yet),
Just for nearness, just for You —
Come and fill this waiting room:

Come into this room, Jesus (come in),
Through the door we can't open.
We don't need another answer —
We need You in this room.

Come into this room (come in),
Into the silence, into the wound,
Come in.

There's a shelter where they sleep in shifts tonight,
There's a kitchen where the bills are stacked like bricks,
There's a cell where someone's counting down the days,
And a father praying just to make it right.
We have knocked on every human door,
We have dialed every number,
Now we turn the handle of the heavens
And we whisper, come the same.
Come into the rooms where hope is thin
And be our present Lord.

For the bedroom with the packed bag (come in),
For the kitchen with the last bread (come in),
For the courtroom with the closed file (come in),
For the daughter by the bed (come in),
For the oil on tired foreheads (come in),
For the letter never sent (come in).
Be the light inside the hallway (come in),
Be the bread that mercy meant.

We are not too proud to beg You (come),
We are not too strong to cry (come in).
Come and meet us at the table
Where we ran clean out of why.
And even if the answer's later (even if),
Even if we wait till dawn,
Just the knowing You are with us
Is enough to carry on.

You are with us.
You are with us.
You are with us.
You are with us.
You are with us.
You are with us.
You are with us.
You are with us.
You are with us.
You are with us.