God Must Be Busy - Brooks & Dunn
November 8th, 2007 by FuzzTagged as: brooks & dunn, country music, lyrics.
Brooks and Dunn played this song last night on the CMA Awards. I have to say, it gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
Here are the lyrics:
Brooks & Dunn: God Must Be Busy
That anchor man
Says the fight began
Somewhere in the Middle East.
The world prays for peace.
There’s a single mom
Just got laid off when she lost a job
To some foreign hands
In some faraway land.
Last night in Oklahoma
Some twister took thirteen
And they’re praying that they find
The missing three.
God must be busy.That highway sign
Went from slow ahead
To traffic’s dead.
Thought it couldn’t get worse
Than that Amber Alert.
They say she’s 4,
Colorado plates, headed out-of-state
In a Chevy van.
It’s hard to understand.
You can see it in the faces
Of all those highway strangers,
They’re praying that God
Keeps that girl from danger.
God must be busy.And I know in the big picture
I’m just a speck of sand
And God’s got better things to do
Than look out for one man.
I know he’s heard my prayers
Cause he hears everything,
He just ain’t answered back
Or he’d bring you back to me.
God must be busy.That evening news,
Ain’t much changed
Pretty much the same
Since I left home.
Yeah that war’s still on.
They found that little girl.
She was soaking wet,
Half scared to death
On the side of some road.
Them prayers work, you know.
And the Bloods and Crips are at it,
And theres a killer drought down south,
And old folks can’t afford the drugs
They can’t live with out.
God must be busy.And I know in the big picture
I’m just a speck of sand
And God’s got better things to do
Than look out for one man.
I know he’s heard my prayers
Cause he hears everything,
He just ain’t answered back
Or he’d bring you back to me.
God must be busy.That anchorman,
Says the fighting’s worse,
Cities burn in the Middle East.
The world prays for peace
November 11th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
The song does touch me, the same way. I think it is expressing a doubt in God.
I feel that pain and suffering might, at times, be a test. A test of our faith, our character, and our love for God. It tends to make us bitter or better.
Suffering makes us bitter if it leads us to doubt and wrong conclusions about why God has allowed our pain.
It makes us better if our hearts and minds are opened to the goodness, love, and restoring powers of God.
~ Les