Ten Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty Days

He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds...The Lord supports the afflicted; he brings down the wicked to the ground.
Some months back I was doing an open house for a client. My client, the husband ,had talked to me earlier about some issues in their marriage. He had mentioned his wife had been abused by an uncle when she was young. They had been married five years and she had never told anyone. She had never dealt with her anger, had counseling or sought any help. This anger had become a cancerous tumor and out of that anger she entered into a lesbian affair.

As I sat in the townhouse I saw a book dealing with healing and abuse. I glanced through the book and as I put the book down I remember saying " There is nothing about the ultimate healing power of our Lord Jesus Christ in that book. Something is missing in her healing process.

By the end of the day I had written this song. I realized that it had taken her thirty years to start the healing process. I gave her this song and a card and we talked about the Lord. She said she was starting to attend her aunt's Bible study and I assured her that it was the very place she needed to be.

TEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS

You don't know what you took from me.
I've got broken childhood dreams.
Walls built up that may never come down.
Unable to trust anyone it seems.

There's a rage deep inside
that I fight everyday

And questions that nobody hears
I hang with my friends
and their plastic red smiles.
But inside I fight back the tears.

And His love is everlasting.
I know it is more than enough.
I am finding my little girl smile.
I no longer have to be tough.

I tell myself I was dreaming.
That it never happened to me.
But the nightmares I fight
in the middle of the night
let's me know it was more than it seemed.

The evidence has faded like blue jeans.
A command to never tell the story.
A cry, a touch in the middle of the night.
And a voice that just says"I'm sorry."

And my Lord is now the solution.
A door to walk through the pain.
I know that God is the answer.
He brings rainbows after the rain.

And His love is ever lasting.
I know it is more than enough.
I am finding my little girl smile.
I no longer have to be tough.

I come with my desperate situation.
Transformed by the Lord up above.
Knowing that my situation .
Is complete in His amazing love.

Ten thousand nine hundred and sixty days
is exactly what I had to live.
To wrap my arms around Jesus
and take all the love He can give.

And my Lord is now the solution.
A door to walk through the pain.
I know that god is the answer.
He brings rainbows after the rain.

Brad McGill
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