Michael J. Tinker has been honoured to be entrusted with stewarding a few stories through song for others. This is one of them.

Hunter was a beautiful boy who battled for many years with a brain tumour. But this never stopped his smile (until he physically couldn’t), nor his love for Jesus. A child described him as “the boy with light coming out of his body”. John tells us that when Jesus heard about his friend’s illness he waited “because he loved them”. This is so hard to understand when we’re in the story, but we can trust the Author. “What stuck in my mind”, writes Michael, “is the story of Jesus and Lazarus and how he waited before going to his sick friend ‘because he loved them’. It was somehow better for Lazarus to die and be raised than for him to be healed of his sickness. Mary and Martha can’t understand what Jesus is doing, and often neither can we. But as we trust an author of a novel to get us to the end, so we can trust THE Author.”

This song was written with Australian singer Tenielle Neda when Michael was on tour down under last August. Tenielle was the winner of the Gospel Coalition USA’s ‘What is the Gospel?’ Song Contest alongside her co-writer Jon Guerra.

Watch the lyric video here.

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I miss the fullness of your face

The spark of light in your eyes

Still your joy it fills this place

I miss the fullness of your face

I miss the sweetness of your song

As the weakness eats away

One day my child you'll be made strong

I miss the sweetness of your song

As we weep and while we wait

Wondering why he must delay

When it's hard to understand

We can trust the author's hand

I miss the lightness of your laugh

Though I glimpse it through the pain

So, to your hand and hope I'll grasp

I miss the lightness of your laugh

I miss the feel of your embrace

But I know that you are home

What I'd give for one more day

To see the fullness of your face

I know there will be a day

when I'll see the fullness of your face.

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