A Tear from God’s Face

A great silence roamed the land
And the sun grew dark that day
No one there could understand
Why the sky had turned away

His mother knelt beneath His feet
Crying, holding on her heart
Watching innocence on wood
Watching heaven torn apart

Around the sixth hour
His voice began to rise
Into the Father’s hands
He gave His final prize

And a tear from God’s face
Fell upon the ground
Shaking every throne
With a holy sound

A tear from God’s face
Opened every stone
And the earth remembered
We were never clean alone

In the beginning was the Word
And the Word became a man
He walked among our broken lives
With mercy in His hands

But with our fear and with our pride
We turned away from grace
We pierced the side of love itself
And could not meet His face

We tell ourselves we’re innocent
We hide from what we’ve done
But the shadow of that cross
Still reaches everyone

And a tear from God’s face
Fell upon the ground
Shaking every throne
With a holy sound

A tear from God’s face
Opened every stone
And the earth remembered
We were never clean alone

His blood is not a stain
That water can erase
It calls us into mercy
It calls us into grace

Not only with a prayer
Not only with a word
But with the good we choose
For the wounded and unheard

And a tear from God’s face
Fell upon the ground
Breaking every silence
With a holy sound

A tear from God’s face
Still speaks across the years
Calling us to love
Through repentance and through tears

The sun grew dark
But hope remained
Love was crucified
And mercy rose again