It was “the most painful room,” says Barnard, “but there was so much joy” as they turned their hearts together to worship in the hardest moment of their lives - which became the inspiration for the song “Though You Slay Me.” As Barnard held his mother to comfort her, he says, as she wailed, she sang softly underneath her breath, the words of Job 1:21: He gives, he takes, blessed be the name of the Lord.īarnard says it was a beautiful cry, not only in her tone and pitch, but in her expressing, while in the tide of wave after waves of pain and loss, her deep trust in God. Barnard’s mother wasn’t able to stand and began hyperventilating, so great was the pain and loss. When the doctor informed Barnard and his mother that his father had died, the flood of pain and shock came. But even more often, he gives us something even more supernatural: praise.įor Shane Barnard, it came in the hospital room at the passing of his father. We cry out for healing or relief or some circumstantial change. In the very midst of life’s deepest pains and most gut-wrenching losses, God loves to gives us a strange, but wonderful gift.
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