Thoughts

ASK ME
I know this song is actually about sexual abuse, but the message and the words ring so true. When Amy Grant's "Heart In Motion" album came out more than 15 years ago, everybody was up in arms about this being her first secular album and how she's turning her back on Christian music. Still, I remember the first time I heard this song "As Me" from that album. I thought it was one of the best Christian songs she'd ever done. This song's message always brings me peace and comfort:


I see her as a little girl hiding in her room
She takes another bath and she sprays her momma's perfume
To try and wipe away the sin he left behind
But it haunts her mind.

You see she's his little rag, nothing more than just a waif
And he's mopping up his need, she is tired and afraid
Maybe she'll find a way through these awful years to disappear.

Ask me if I think there's a God up in the heaven
Where did He go in the middle of her shame?
Ask me if I think there's a God up in the heaven
I see no mercy and no one down here's naming names
Nobody's naming names.

Now she's looking in the mirror at a lovely woman face
No more frightened little girl, like she's gone without a trace
Still she leaves the light burning in the hall
It's hard to sleep at all.

So she crawls up in her bed acting quiet as a mouse
Deep inside she's listening for a creeping in the house
But nothing's left to harm her, she's finally safe and sound
There's a peace she's found.

Ask her how she knows there's a God up in the heaven
Where did He go in the middle of her shame?
Ask her how she knows there's a God up in the heavens
She said His mercy is bringing her life again.

Ask me how I know there's a God up in the heaven(How do you know?)
Where did He go in the middle of her shame(Where did He go?)
Ask me how I know there's a God up in the heavens(How do you know?)
She said His mercy is bringing her life again
She's coming to life again.

He's in the middle of her pain
In the middle of her shame
Mercy brings life
He's in the middle
Mercy in the middle.

So ask me how I know
Ask me how I know, yeah
Ask me how I know there's a God up in the heaven(How do you know?)
Ask me how I know there's a God up in the heaven(How do you know?)
Yeah, ask me how I know(How do you know?)
Ask me
Ask me
Ask me how I know(How do you know?)
There's a God up in the heaven
Ask me how I know there's a God up in the heaven.