These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Where Is God?

Has God removed His Presence, fair,
when aught but silence fills the air?
Does God stop holding all toge'er
when we can't see Him move?

Is blessed day forever dark
when God seems gone and makes no mark?
No lighthouse seen by tossing barque
can hopeful light yet prove.

Will God be always far from those,
His children loved, so freely chose?
Will He not help as suff'ring grows
within each lo-ved heart?

The pain He lets is for our good,
apart from mental hopes or mood,
that thoughts of Him be ne'ermore skewed
when in The Day we start.

God is right here His Word declares.
He holds each child when in our cares.
He marks each breath, and numbers hairs.
We're ne'er from Him apart.

by Jay O’Toole
on May 29th, 2023