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Where Was I?
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Jennifer Jill Schwirzer
Where was I when You rose up from Gethsemane’s prayer
And searched for Your disciples to find them sleeping there?
Some sympathy in suffering, some tenderness in grief
The source of all deliverance, You longed for some relief
I have moon upon my pillow, You had blood upon your stone
Did I make this Son of Love suffer all alone?
Where was I? (Watch and pray lest you enter temptation)
Where was I? (Could you not have watched with me one hour)
Sleeping as You suffered, and now I ask "Why?"
You were there for me, Friend, but where was I?
 
Where was I when You rose up between the earth and sky
And turned Your face to heaven to ask Your Father "Why?"?
All-knowingness bewildered, All-sufficiency in need
And so few of Your friends there to even watch you bleed
I have sunshine in my window, you had dark night in Your Soul
I forsook and fled away when I heard the thunder roll
Where was I? (Of the people, there was not one with Me)
Where was I? (I have trodden the winepress alone)
Sleeping as You suffered, and now I ask "Why?"
You were there for me, Friend, but where was I?
Where was I when You rose up, my heavenly High Priest
You were then in chains of suffering, and You have not been released
You feel with hungry babies, you’re lonely as old men
You die with battered women again and still again
I have stars of hope to cheer me, You have darkness and delay
I’m Your great disappointment, You love me anyway
Where am I? (Because you say that you have need of nothing)
Where am I? (And you’re poor, wretched, naked and blind)
Though they bring me sorrow, these questions won’t die
This is my confession, my penitent sigh, I was
Sleeping as You suffered, and now I ask "Why?"
You were there for me, Friend, but where was I?

Music and lyrics written by Jennifer Jill Schwirzer.  All rights reserved. Visit Jennifer Jill Schwirzer online.

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