Helen Martin’s Blog

If you have popped over from the Encouragement Cafe, then you are here looking for “dessert”.

To hear the song, click here and you will be scooting back over to the June 6, 2009 show podcast… my song is about seven and half minutes in! And below are the lyrics.

The song is about how after almost two years of me saying “What are you calling me to do?” that I felt God starting to say, “Get ready, I am going to show you” and how it kind of freaked me out.

The song itself is one of those “dreams” mentioned in the song. I had asked God if He would let me write songs again. (It had been about 16 years since I’d written a song that wasn’t about saying things like “goodnight,” “good morning,” “how should I cook your eggs” etc. to my kids.) This song was the second or third that came to me in about a week. The day it was finished I grabbed a load of clean laundry and my computer and went up to our bedroom. I folded clothes and sang toward my computer, partly because I didn’t want to forget how it went… but it crossed my mind that I would share it with a tiny handful of women (maybe two or three) who would be thankful along with me for the “yes” to my prayer. I thought “the worst” that could happen is that Luann would put in on her iPod. It never occurred to me that it would ever be played on the radio!

At that same time in my life I also had been in the midst of praying that God would use me however He wanted to in order to help IJM in their heroic work of rescuing little girls trapped in brothels, defending land rights of widows and orphans, and freeing labor slaves. It started to look like part of “helping” was going to mean a trip to Africa at the end of the summer. And while I really wanted to go, that also brought out a lot of fears. (I wasn’t even sure I was brave enough to get the shots required to go!)

It turns out that I’ll be heading for the maternity ward and not IJM’s African field offices this summer, but that is also a journey I wasn’t expecting to make, and which carries with it fears of it’s own. But God will be with me as we welcome child number six into our family, and bring her home to our three bedroom house….  He’ll be there, just like He’s here.

JUST LIKE YOU’RE HERE

I say, “Wait,” You say, “Let’s go”
You say, “Yes,” My fears say, “No”
You say, “Get ready,” I say, “Please, go slowly”
Will I know that You’ll be there?
Will You be there?

You say, “Try” I say, “Oh, no!
I think I’d rather stay here,” You say, “Go”
Lord, I don’t get it, You say “Be still and know”
OK I’ll go, if You’ll be there
Will You be there?

chorus:
I’m not quite accustomed to my dreams coming true
I don’t know what to make of what You’re making me
And I don’t know where I’ll be in five minutes or five years
But I know that You’ll be there, You will be there
Just like You’re here

You say, “I love you,” I just cry
If I could speak I might ask, “Why?”
You say, “Just trust Me” I say, “OK, I’ll try
And if I die, well You’ll be there, so I won’t care.”

When You say, “Be brave” I say, “Lord, have we met?”
You say, “Now,” I say, “Not yet”
You say, “I’ll never leave you, Child, don’t forget”
I won’t forget if You’ll be there
You will be there

chorus:
See, I’m not accustomed to my dreams coming true
And I don’t know what to make of what You’re making me
And I don’t know where I’ll be in five minutes or five years
But I know that You’ll be there, You will be there
Just like You’re here