Weep With Me

In the week after the Manchester bomb, the Irish Band, Rend Collective, sought to write something to express their feelings. Since they wrote this song, we have seen still more violence on London Bridge, and the horrifying tragedy at the Grenfell Tower.
They said "Can worship and suffering co-exist? Can pain and praise inhabit the same space? Can we sing that God is good when life is not? When there are more questions than answers? The Bible says a resounding Yes! : these songs are called laments and they make up a massive portion of the Psalms." Here is "Weep With Me" - a lament from Rend...

Weep with me,

Lord, will you weep with me?

I don’t need answers

All I need is to know you care for me

Hear my plea – are you even listening?

Lord, I will wrestle with your heart  

...but I won’t let you go

You know I believe, help my unbelief

Yet I will praise you, yet I will sing of your name

Here in the shadows, I’ll light up an offering of praise

What was true in the light is still true in the dark

You’re good and you’re kind and you care for this heart

Lord, I believe that you weep with me

Part the seas Lord, make a way for me

Here in the midst of my lament, I have faith

Yes, I still believe that you love me

Your plans are to prosper me

You’re working everything for good

…even when I can’t see

You know I believe, 

...help my unbelief

Yet I will praise you, yet I will sing of your name

Here in the shadows, I’ll light up an offering of praise

What was true in the light

...is still true in the dark

You’re good and you’re kind and you care for this heart

Lord, I believe that you weep with me

I believe that you care, I love you Lord

You hear the cries of the oppressed and the heart-broken

Turn my lament into a love song, transform me

Turn my lament into an anthem, I need you now

Turn my lament into a love song, raise it up

Turn my lament into an anthem, yet I will praise you

Yet I will sing of your name

Lord, I believe that you weep with me