"Sooner or Later" by Mat Kearney

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2alcO-Bqylc?rel=0&w=1280&h=720]

This song helps me to be honest about the difficulty and pain that I experience. And so this song also gives me hope. I have not always been able to be honest though. For many years I bought into the lie that I need to pretend that everything is fine. I thought that lamenting over pain and suffering was a sign of weakness (at best) or even lack of faith in God (at worst). But I am learning how to be honest about the tragedy of evil and the pain in suffering, and that doing so is healthy and necessary. But I still have to fight the impulse to hide. Sooner or later, we all endure some form of pain and suffering. And as we learn to be honest about this, then we can start to find hope. Then we are in a position in which we know that we need hope - that we are waiting for something. Come back Lord Jesus! Come quickly! 

I think that these lyrics are another way of expressing some of these ideas:

We're all standing with our backs against the wall, sooner or later

Waiting on a phone that never calls, at all

Heartbreak comes rollin' in like a storm, sooner or later

Trying to swim but you're sinking like a stone, alone 

The fear inside the hills we've climbed

The tears this side of heaven

All these dreams inside of me

I swear we're gonna get there

Sooner or later, we're gonna make it