I Prayed For You

"you are nothing that you wanted to be. your dreams and your visions left you years ago and left you buried underneath the weight of your todays. you scream into the night and no one hears you. in every direction you scream and yet your voice is nothing more than a whisper. the dark of night covers your heart and soon you become cold and hardened. you scoff at compassion and reject love. bottles surround you on the floor as you lay drunk with bitterness and anger. you take solace in knowing that you are alone now. you've made the world your friend and she welcomes you with open arms. everything you've ever wanted can be yours: fame, success, riches. she gives these gifts to you freely and freely you take them. the world is yours. something was different for you today though. you heard the faintest whisper of a familiar voice and you shut it out....it couldn't be. and again you hear that voice whispering in the distance. you close your eyes to shut out the noise. you are happy, remember. the world is yours. days go on and the whisper grows louder. you occupy your mind with other thoughts. your heart belongs to the world, and the world's to you. weeks and months pass you by and yet despite your attempts to run, the whisper is gaining momentum. a year has gone by now....and something is wrong...the world is slipping through your grasps - you feel you've lost the only love you've ever known....and that whisper? it's piercing through the night now and won't let you sleep...it's constantly with you. you attempt to shut it out but now it just won't leave. you sit up in the dead of night. unable to sleep you crumble beneath the burdens that have attached themselves to you day after day. and through your tears and through your pain you bring your brokenness and your shame and you lay it down. you trade it in for joy and a peace that you simply cannot understand. and the instant you uttered His name you knew you weren't alone. He swept you up in His arms and said 'welcome home'. He tells you the story of how daily He called your name. He called out to you daily and at first He knew it must have only sounded like a whisper to you. yet He called you. day by day, that call grew louder until finally you heard His voice. and i.......i prayed for you. because i saw your pain, i prayed for your heart. because i saw your anger, i prayed for joy to come to you. because i saw your loneliness, i prayed for a friend like no other. because i love you, i prayed for you."