I've made some bad decisions,
And I paid the price in pain
If I'd walked a different path,
Would God have let you remain?
Now most of my days are behind me,
Your words echo when I pray
Life's not just the rise or the fall,
But who you call when you lose your way
You went home to the Lord above,
And I'm questioning the God I love
Why does sickness take the gentle first?
I'm holding faith, but fighting the worst
If there's mercy hidden in His plan,
Why does sorrow fall heavy on a man?
I'm trying to trust, but I can't understand
Why did Heaven choose this way?
I was kept away from the home I knew,
Twenty years life pulled me from you.
No holidays, no place at the table,
Just phone calls trying to keep me stable.
Lord, why let distance mark our days?
Why scatter love in such hard ways?
Your ways are higher, I still believe
But some wounds are deeper than we can grieve
Lord, I'm praying though my hope feels weak,
If You guide our steps, what path did You seek?
Why the sickness, why the storm?
Why call her home before our bond could warm?
You went home to the Lord above,
And I'm questioning the God I love
Why does health take the gentle away?
I'm losing ground a little each day
If You hear my crying when I pray
Show me light, because I've lost my way
I'm trying to trust, but I can't understand
Why did Heaven choose this way?
Kellen held all you worked to save,
Sold your home without the plan you gave
Never paused to say, "Ryan needs this too,"
Just rushed into spending, burning through
No cards or dice, just reckless speed,
Money lost to impulse and greed
I stayed silent, swallowing pain,
Watching my future wash away like rain
My health declines, my strength runs thin,
And knowing he squandered your work cuts within
I'm torn between bitterness I hate
He's my brother
but what he did shapes my fate
So God, why allow betrayal so deep?
Why give him blessing he wouldn't keep?
If every trial carries Your touch
Why let her whole legacy crumble to dust?
Lord, lift me higher if Your ways are true,
I'm losing faith and reaching for You
You hold my mother where pain can't stay,
But I'm drowning in questions day by day
Why her sickness, why the divide?
Why let our home unravel inside?
If there's meaning, whisper it my way
Tell me why You chose this way
You went home to the Lord above,
And I'm still wrestling with the God I love
Why does loss rewrite a life so fast?
Why does grief outlive the past?
I'm holding on through shadows and gray
Begging God to show me the way
If Heaven has reasons it won't yet say
Tell me why You chose this way
One day I'll understand,
When I see His face at last
But until then, Mom, guide my steps
Through the storms and through the past
I'm trying to forgive, trying to believe,
Trying to live with the choices He let us weave
And until He calls me home someday
I'll keep searching for why
He chose this way