Sunday School Answers, by DianaDee Osborne

SUNDAY  SCHOOL  ANSWERS
ALBUM:      Amazing LORD 'n'  Life
Song location:   http://DianaDeeosborneSongs.com/NEW-Songs.php
Song Story:  THE  MUSIC --  The melody is very simple deliberately.... when we're feeling "down," we don't feel like singing fancy music that we have to "think about" to stay on key.  So God guided me to keep entire sections limited to a single note moving once in awhile to another single note.....
Song Story:  THE  LYRICS:
        In the high school/college age Sunday School class I dearly loved teaching for 9-1/2 years, we often discussed my phrase “Sunday School answers” --- when we go to someone for comfort and instead they preach scriptures at us.  YES -- Sunday School answers are TRUE  when they equal God's Word.  Yet these AREN'T  always the RIGHT  answers to give when someone
is grieving over joys that have been lost in time.  
 
    Even Jesus wept  when his friend Lazarus died....
       and He assuredly knew all the Sunday School  answers about resurrection.  
      And Jesus COULD have preached at the woman at the well about sin; instead He gently discussed her need for "something missing" in her life.
This song itself was inspired by sad thoughts of  friends and ministries “lost”,   including the class I so loved.... yet the SS answer is.... Romans 8:28.  
God will bring good  from it  for ALL who love Him!
dedicated to God, THE Answer, 9 Sept 2012

LYRICS

“God comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. 
When they are troubled, we will be able to give them 
the same comfort God has given us.”   --  2 Corinthians 1:4,  New Living Translation

PART  1
Sometimes it seems that all that I've loved has
drifted away... sifted away......  LOST  ___ forever in time.
Sometimes it seems that all who I've loved have
drifted away... sifted away....  LOST  ___ forever in time.

    The Sunday School answer is 'GOD NEVER LEAVES.'
    And I   DO find comfort in Hebrews 13, verse 5.
But there's more comfort in knowing that Jesus  knows
EXACTLY HOW  I feel.................  for
    His friends LEFT Him,  to.      For
        Time took His good times,     too.
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INTERLUDE SCRIPTURES:  
        GOD promises you through 2nd Corinthians Chapter 1, New Living Translation:  May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.  All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort.  He comforts us  in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. 
        GOD comforts you through Romans 8: 26 to end including these words:  And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don't know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.  And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God....      Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't He also give us everything else? ... No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, 
nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed  in Christ Jesus our Lord.        
       --- Romans 8:   selections from verses 26 to the end.
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PART  2
Sometimes it seems that all things go wrong.
Whatever I try fails before long.   LOST  ___ forever in time.
Sometimes it seems that all of my dreams  are

SMASHED away......  SNATCHED  away..........          [ or “dashed away”]
LOST  ___ forever in time.
    The Sunday School answer is 'GOD ALWAYS HELPS.'
    And I  DO find comfort in Romans 8:  28.
But there's more comfort in knowing that Jesus  was
MURDERED on a cross,   
YET GOD BROUGHT  FORTH LIFE   for
    Jesus and ALL  us who pray Romans 10:9,   for
        God won't let Time take our joy.
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PART  3
They say when you're happy,  just wait for awhile. 
Your bubble will burst,  the other shoe will fall.
    But I declare “NO!  I shall TRUST in The LORD,
    whose love and power can change all!
The Sunday school answers from the Bible are TRUE !
They say when you're happy,  don't get up your hopes.  BUT
I can-NOT say I will NOT trust The LORD, 
FOR over and over, when my life felt dark,  I've
seen evidence of God's love. 
The Sunday school answers from the Bible are TRUE ! 
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