Your Hands

I have a favorite new song. It’s called “Your Hands” by JJ Heller. I had already listened to it several times on the radio, sang along and downloaded it from ITunes before I discovered why it resonated so deeply with me. Just last night, it hit me –this song IS my book, Shaken. The chorus, “When my world is shaking, heaven stands. When my heart is breaking, I never leave your hands.” In 1906 San Francisco, my lead character Abigail is mourning the death of her sister and angrily blames God for her death. When she is plunged into the chaos of the Great San Francisco earthquake, she discovers that though she her life has been shaken to the very core, her heart is safe in God’s hands. Read an excerpt from Shaken, here.

If you haven’t heard this song, I encourage you to go to Itunes or JJHeller.com and buy it. It’s remarkable.

JJ Heller – Your Hands (From the album Painted Red)

I have unanswered prayers
I have trouble I wish wasn’t there
And I have asked a thousand ways
That you would take my pain away
You would take my pain away

I am trying to understand
How to walk this weary land
Make straight the paths that crooked lie
Oh Lord, before these feet of mine
Oh Lord, before these feet of mine

When my world is shaking, heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave your hands

When you walked upon the earth
You healed the broken, lost and hurt
I know you hate to see me cry
One day you will set all things right
Yeah, one day you will set all things right

When my world is shaking, heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave your hands

Your hands that shaped the world
Are holding me
They hold me still