it's okay to not be okay

[lyrics by Andrew Buller, tune by suno.com - created in Canterbury, Kent - 30/10/24] [short instrumental] o k o k o k o k [short instrumental] [spoken] this is a shout out to my church that embraces me through it all and lives by its call - it's okay to not be okay [short instrumental] church is not just a building but a community a hospital of broken people coming together from every corner to share in the need for love and the healing of God children in need of saving, restoring mending, exploring growing through grieving conflicts, addiction depression, rejection held within warm, loving arms of grace [short instrumental] [chorus] it's okay you're home you're here to stay it's okay to not be okay there are troubles in every day we need each other to be real with each other love, care, support and pray it's always okay to not be okay [short instrumental] that September Sunday when I came with my wife so broken, so tearful so sleep-deprived a living parable of the hurts we all hide allowing me, up to the front, to confess the anguish we deny behind closed doors in the name of pride fearing I'd be blamed or shamed if I cried if a grown man, cried Jesus wept Jesus wept and that night he spoke - [spoken] 'I did more through your two minutes of honest brokenness than your months of pretending' let's let go of pretending - [short instrumental] [chorus] it's okay you're home you're here to stay it's okay to not be okay there are troubles in every day we need each other to be real with each other love, care, support and pray it's always okay to not be okay [short instrumental] and let's be a sanctuary where, with deep sighs we can let go of the baggage and say how it is for us we all need to pastor and be pastored we all need to mentor and be mentored we all need to disciple and be discipled we all need to be mother and daughter to be father and son to be intimate, truthful and honest mirroring our heavenly Father and Son in their Spirit that leads us on [short instrumental] [chorus] it's okay you're home you're here to stay it's okay to not be okay there are troubles in every day we need each other to be real with each other love, care, support and pray it's always okay to not be okay [short instrumental] until, one day as we carry each other over the line and it's all okay so much more than okay and all the more beautiful for knowing that we travelled home this way we travelled home this way