hal·le·lu·jah

There is something about that word - when said or sung by someone who's spirit has literally been broken in two. There is just something about visually watching someone who has not just been through a valley, but has been dragged through it.... And there - even in the middle of it - face down, they still say:

hal·le·lu·jah

–interjection
1. Praise ye the Lord!
–noun
2. an exclamation of “hallelujah!”
3. a shout of joy, praise, or gratitude.
4. a musical composition wholly or principally based upon the word “hallelujah.”


You bring your "puttogetherlife", in your Sunday best, with every hair in place, judgments in hand, every 't' crossed, and you tell me that God is good because you've never faced a trial, and I say... move aside friend, because I can't see past your self-righteous bubble.

But, bring your "piecesofbrokenlife", shattered as they may be, your unanswered questions, your wounds so big a bandage won't fit, your best attempt to get out of bed today and the tissues in your back pocket because you never know just when the tears will come, BRING ME THAT - coupled with arms open wide and say: I don't know which way is up but I know God is who He says He is, and I will cling to that with every aching part of me. BRING ME THAT, and I say:

Thank you Jesus for a testimony so powerful, a testimony where only You are left to put the pieces back together... back together in a way that is so much better than our best attempt on our best day. Where life is made new where and only You get the glory. Glory that would make our "Sunday best" look like rags.

If you came here with your puttogetherlife, these are not the words for you. If you stumbled here with your piecesofbrokenlife, I pray these words and testimonies speak to you as they did to me today....and that we - together - on our faces - in the valley - can sing: "Hallelujah!" "Yahweh!"


1. Song "Yahweh" written and performed by the most amazing man I know, my husband. The words came from a longing for healing after our 4th miscarriage.

Yahweh from Amick Cutler on Vimeo.

2. Story behind the song "Hallelujah" by Heather Williams, she wrote the words proclaiming her faith in God after the loss of their baby boy.