Karla's Song

Wrote this about a person I met in Peru while I was a missionary there...
I'm postin' it here for Spencer!

Dark blue Peugeot, 1964, there’s not a sound as she softly shuts the door.

Though it hasn’t left the driveway in years, its dashboard is wet with a young woman’s tears.

When the Sorrow welled up down within her heart, she would go to the car and sit in the dark.

Night after night she entered the car, and asked forgiveness from God, for wanderin’ so far.

The memories of all the things she had done, pierced through her heart like the shot from a gun.

But if He’d ever have her, she’d like to come back, she confessed many times to the night sky so black.

And she prayed to her Father above, she cried to Him to send her His love.

She was scared and confused and had long lost her way, but she found it again as she began to pray.

The nights turned to weeks but one common day, just after she’d entered the old car to pray,

She heard a knock on the gate outside and had to choose to go or to hide.

But something prompted to answer the door, could this be the answer she’d been looking for?

Her neighbor from the store down the street, with two young men in ties are the ones she did meet.

They said that they wanted to talk about God, and as they spoke she began to feel odd.

She told them to come back the next day to talk, then went back to her car to ponder that knock.

And she prayed to her father above, she cried to Him to send her his love.

She was scared and confused, but could this be the way? Had she found it again? She continued to pray.

They taught her God had never left her side, although she’d wandered through mists of fear and pride.

As they taught her day after day she began to feel something within her growing bright and real.

And after each lesson she went to the car, knowing Father in Heaven wasn’t to far.

The day finally came all dressed up in white; the Spirit came down and filled her with light.

She said, “This is all true, I feel it, I know that a Father in Heaven loves us here below.

“And through we may wander, we’re never to far, I know ‘cause he found me alone in my car.”

And she prayed to her Father above, and thanked Him for sending her his love.

She’d been scared and confused and had long lost her way, but she found it again when she began to pray.