Desert Rose

This is a song written by Whiteheart back in the 90's. I grew up hearing it a lot because my brother loved their music. Then, while he was away at college, I borrowed his cassette tapes to listen to them on my own initiative. Even though I've been surrounded by songs like this for so long, it wasn't until very recently that I paused to go over the lyrics. And when I did, I was completely wowed. Sometimes when we're trying to do something for God, it seems like we're all alone and no one else wants to be a part of whatever we're pushing. We feel like the only blooming flower in a whole desert of hot, dry, lifeless sand..But the truth is that God's always with us no matter what we're doing, no matter where we are.

Lost in a windswept land
In a world of shifting sand
A fragile flower stands apart
There on that barren ground
You feel like the one
Trying to serve Him with all your heart

And you wonder, wonder
Can you last much longer
This cloud you are under
Will it cover you

Desert rose (desert rose)
Don't you worry, don't be lonely
Heaven knows, Heaven knows
In a dry and weary land a flower grows
His desert rose

Sometimes holiness
Can seem like emptiness
When you feel the whole world's laughing eyes
But if it's a lonely day
Know you're on the Father's way
He will hear you when you cry

And He will hold you, hold you
Your Father will hold you
He will love you, love you
For the things you do

Desert rose (desert rose)
Don't you worry, don't be lonely
Heaven knows, Heaven knows
In a dry and weary land a flower grows
His desert rose