Poetry

a Brian Pannell original for your reading pleasure:

When Faith and Logic Collide

Sometimes it’s hard to understand just what I’m supposed to think
When the knowledge of your water is simply much too deep to drink
When I look at the world, and when I see its’ hurt and pain
There’s a battle that is raging between my heart and brain

Did the earth ever really flood? Are dinosaurs real?
Should the dating of a rock change the way I feel?
Is the Bible to be taken literal? Is it all analogy?
Did the death of a Jewish teacher really change eternity?

These are questions that I’ve heard. A few that I’ve considered
But through it all, your love abounds and my belief in you grows bigger

Most kids of this world can’t even eat, and in America they all grow fat
I struggle to explain the justice in a God who works like that.
And when I listen to the cries, and the tears flood in like rain
Still a battle’s raging between my heart and my brain

Was this all created in 7 actual days? Did a serpent really speak?
What am I to learn from the washing of the feet?
Did a virgin give birth? Did her son really die?
And did he truly ascend right from that hill into the cloudy sky?

These are questions that I’ve heard. A few that I’ve considered
But through it all, your love abounds and my belief in you grows bigger

Try and try I may, but I’ll never understand
For my vision is so limited and I am just a man
As for me, I choose to serve you God
As for me I’ll choose to trust
And maybe one day it’ll all be clear when my body’s returned to dust

For I could talk myself in circles, I could argue all day long
But still I can’t deny this feeling stirring like a song
That your justice WILL be served
That your grace WILL abound
And for all that makes no sense to me….. no answer may be found

These are questions that I’ve heard. A few that I’ve considered
But through it all, your love abounds and my belief in you grows bigger