faith in bleak times

No, it's another no, another silent walk home.
Another day, another day closed, in the same clothes
Another "we regret to inform you" over the phone,
So how am I to act, and react to this bad news?
It's been so long since I've felt glad, what am I to do?
A simple answer, a formula is just too trite,
I need a revelation of Jesus, filling this darkest night.
I need to see the cross He bore for me and what I was.
That nothing can separate us from the love of God's own Son.

And so in the darkness, in the sorrow, in the mourning song.
I'll trust in God and His power to finish what He's begun.
Only He can change this road and lead us to life and peace.
Only He heal our wounds as our King and God's High Priest.
So bless the Son Who knows our struggles and bore all our grief,
Give Him glory by trusting fully, enduring all with firm belief.

His ways are wisest and full of health, directing away from death.
From God the Father, to us, His children, has come all good, even life and breath.
Never pleased in the wicked's dying; He disciplines to bless,
Let none charge God with question as if God's intentions needed test.