lenten journal: when it don't come easy

Our former foster daughter came to Durham this weekend because she is hurting and needed to be cared for. The only words I can find tonight belong to Patty Griffin and her song, “When It Don’t Come Easy” because it is such a tangible description of what love is: “if you break down, I’ll drive out and find you.” I know it is not the first time I’ve mentioned this song, but tonight it’s time to sing it again.

red lights are flashing on the highway
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight
everywhere the waters getting rough
your best intentions may not be enough
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight

but if you break down
I'll drive out and find you
if you forget my love
I'll try to remind you
and stay by you when it don't come easy

I don't know nothing except change will come
year after year what we do is undone
time keeps moving from a crawl to a run
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home

you're out there walking down a highway
znd all of the signs got blown away
sometimes you wonder if you're walking in the wrong direction

but if you break down
I'll drive out and find you
if you forget my love
I'll try to remind you
and stay by you when it don't come easy

so many things that I had before
that don't matter to me now
tonight I cry for the love that I've lost
and the love I've never found
when the last bird falls
and the last siren sounds
someone will say what's been said before
some love we were looking for

but if you break down
I'll drive out and find you
if you forget my love
I'll try to remind you
and stay by you when it don't come easy

Peace,
Milton