Where Was I (hannah’s child)
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WHERE WAS I LYRICS
© Copyright Pamela Joy Crawford 2003 l Album: hannah’s child
Sometimes I get angry with the way that things turn out
I think that they should be easier on me
But where was I when You placed the stars in the sky
Where was I when You made the mountain high?
Sometimes I clench my fists and hold them on my hips
I shout at You and say “You should do it my way”
But where was I when You placed the stars in the sky
Where was I when You made the mountain high?
Am I broken to finally hear?
Am I broken to finally hear?
Am I broken to finally hear what You’ve saying all along?
You’ve been around forever with a plan cleverer
than man, women, scientist or philosopher
Because You were there before time
So my thoughts are not Your thoughts
Yet I’m giving arrogant orders to You
The maker of it all You are
But where was I when You placed the stars in the sky?
Where was I?
Where was I when You made the mountain high?
Where was I?
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Behind the song
I had spent my life being angry with God on the basis of the pain and suffering in the world. I reasoned that all the trauma and death in the world implied that God was a thing to hate, defy, ignore, challenge and get angry about.
‘Where Was I’ is about God’s response to Job’s expressions of frustration in the book “Job” in the Bible. This frustration was about the suffering God was allowing Job to go through. God rhetorically asks Job “Were you there when I created the heavens and the earth?”.
Applying this question to myself changed my anger into humility because I finally acknowledged the sheer power of the Creator of the universe and life. This necessary respect helped me to realise that my ability to make sense of whatever is going on in my life and the world could not possibly be wiser than the God who was there before time, putting the pillars of the universe in place.
It helped me look outside of myself to find out what the Creator may have revealed. For me, this was the first step in being able to see beyond my ideas and listen properly for the first time.
