“Oh Lord Hear My Voice” featuring Lucy Stimpson-Maynard with Robbie Richardson on sax- from album “Where Would I Be Without You?”

This world and this life, Lord are so unsafe,

But I know You’re good, place in You my faith,

Life’s mysteries – I can’t explain,

But I’ll rejoice in You all the same.

I feel these words are particularly appropriate at this time when there is so much evil in the world.   The horrors of war and the brutality of extremists are difficult to comprehend. The so called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria and Al Shabaab in Kenya are committing  atrocities in which it is so easy to cry out to God “Why oh why?”  And indeed there is no reason why we should not cry out to Him – after all that is what the Psalmists did in their Laments. However most of those Laments concluded with a re-affirmation of their trust in God and that is what this song attempts to do.

The saxophone is played by Robbie Richardson who has been with Mustard Seed Songs for many, many years – he is amazing but more of Robbie next week.