Sometimes life is just too complicated to explain in a blog. Backstories seem to lengthy to explain and situations are determined to be private rather than public. A mid-westerner by birth recently commented to me that southerners keep a facade about them. You go up to a man whose life is falling down around them and yet he says he is "doing good." I can argue if that is true or not. I know I have been guilty of it but I don't think it is because I am southern. For me it is because I am tired of hurting, tired of losing hope. In the vernacular of a southerner..I'm just plain sick and tired" of life. And yet in the middle of my yuckiness, I hear a song. This is the song I heard last night.

Give us faith to be strong
Father, we are so weak
Our bodies are fragile and weary
As we stagger and stumble to walk where you lead
Give us faith to be strong

Give us faith to be strong
Give us strength to be faithful
This life is not long, but it's hard
Give us grace to go on
Make us willing and able
Lord, give us faith to be strong

Give us peace when we're torn
Mend us up when we break
This flesh can be wounded and shaking
When there's much too much trouble for one heart to take
Give us peace when we're torn

Give us faith to be strong
Give us strength to be faithful
This life is not long, but it's hard
Give us grace to go on
Make us willing and able
Lord, give us faith to be strong

Give us hearts to find hope
Father, we cannot see
How the sorrow we feel can bring freedom
And as hard as we try, Lord, it's hard to believe
So, give us hearts to find hope

Give us faith to be strong
Give us strength to be faithful
This life is not long, but it's hard
Give us grace to go on
Make us willing and able
Lord, give us faith to be strong
Give us peace when we're torn
Give us faith, faith to be strong

Andrew Peterson, Faith to be Strong.