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\u201cHeld\u201d by Natalie Grant is a song about losing a child and learning to trust in God through pain and suffering. I\u2019ve never lost a child, so I can\u2019t even imagine that pain, but I know that this song has helped many people through their loss. I wanted to dig deeper into the possible meaning of this song. I hope it helps many people.
\nFirst verse: \u201cTwo months is too little. They let him go. They had no sudden healing. To think that providence would take a child from his mother while she prays, is appalling. Who told us we’d be rescued? What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares? We’re asking why this happens to us, who have died to live? It’s unfair. Chorus: This is what it means to be held. How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life and you survive. This is what it is to be loved, and to know that the promise was when everything fell, we’d be held.”<\/div>\n
The first verse talks about how someone\u2019s son died at two months old. It was too soon for the family and they grieved unimaginable grief. They couldn\u2019t work a miracle to save their son. God didn\u2019t save him in his Earthly life, and took him to Heaven. The song asks who told any of us that we\u2019d be saved from any nightmares and that it is ok for the family to ask why their son died, even when they prayed for healing and a miracle. It tells us that it is ok to ask why terrible things happen in our lives and to say that it is unfair.\u00a0 Yet the family knew they were still held by the promises of God, that they would see their son again in Heaven.<\/div>\n
We have the same promise of God\u2019s love and grace too. Knowing God on a personal level and continuing to have faith even amid the worst times of your life, is what it means to be held. That pain is how it feels when something sacred is torn from your life and God gives you the strength, power, wisdom and courage that you didn\u2019t know you had within you, in order to survive. We know what it is to be loved by God. He gave us that never-ending promise of love that He\u2019d be with us and hold us together when everything seemed to be falling apart. He holds us together even when we can\u2019t go on.<\/div>\n
Second verse: \u201cThis hand is bitterness. We want to taste it, let the hatred numb our sorrow. The wise hands open slowly to lilies of the valley and tomorrow. Chorus: This is what it means to be held. How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life, and you survive. This is what it is to be loved and to know that the promise was when everything fell we’d be held.\u201d<\/div>\n
Satan wants us to be bitter and angry through our suffering and for us to even turn on or away from God. We often want to stay in our sorrow and let the hatred that we may have within us numb the pain that we feel after losing someone. We want to keep that anger and hatred inside of us instead of letting it go completely and giving it up to Him through prayer.\u00a0\u00a0 But God is always with us and in our midst. His wise hands are always there to receive the baggage that we have been carrying around. We may have been carrying it for so long that we don\u2019t even know how to give it up to Him. He will lift it from our shoulders and replace it with peace. That\u2019s what it means to be held by the King of Kings. He will help you survive the unimaginable.<\/div>\n
Bridge: \u201cIf hope is born of suffering. If this is only the beginning. Can we not wait for one hour watching for our Savior? Chorus: This is what it means to be held. How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life and you survive. This is what it is to be loved, and to know that the promise was, when everything fell we’d be held.”<\/div>\n
The bridge poses the question that if hope is actually born of our suffering, how can it only be the beginning? Aren\u2019t we too far gone to be helped by God through the tough times and through our grief? That can\u2019t be farther from the truth. The last part of the bridge really hits home- \u201ccan we not wait for one hour watching for our Savior?\u201d This is referring to when Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane with His disciples. They fell asleep and Jesus asked them how they fell asleep and to keep watch again with Him before He was handed over to be crucified. This part of the song also makes us think of waiting and watching with expectation of Jesus\u2019 second coming. We must be ready for Jesus to come again. We are always held by God even when it doesn\u2019t feel like we are. He will never let us go from His loving arms.<\/div>\n
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