Thank God for Hard Times

Your Daddy’s tough, tough as a pine knot
Your Mama’s pretty, soft as a rose
Hard times in 1957,
She lost the baby when her water broke
Were you old enough to know

Thank God for hard times
They brought your family close
Hard times taught you what living is
Hard times, never kept you down enough
To keep you from getting up
They’re a blessing in your blood
Thank God for hard times
They made you the girl I love

Motor cycle crash on a Georgia dirt road
Took your sister one summer day
Your Daddy called us, he was crying
You told him gently, she’s in a better place
You never lost your faith

There were things life put us through
We couldn’t come back from
But you were stronger than I ever knew
The years we shared were precious ones

Hard times, never kept you down enough
To keep you from getting up
They’re a blessing in your blood
Thank God for hard times
They made you the girl I love
They made you

@Ben Mason 2022