I Still Miss You

Hawk Nelson's "I Still Miss You" is a plainspoken elegy for a grandmother remembered as "a picture of my mother's mother" — a small woman who taught the singer about love and the ways of God. The verses trace her last days in bed, the smiling face she wore the night she died, and the boy who grew into a man still trying to grasp what she told him. The chorus holds two things at once: an honest grief that won't be talked out of itself, and a confession that Jesus is bigger than the cancer that took her. The prayer for healing went unanswered, and the song says so without flinching — "I wish my prayers came true" sits right beside the declaration that Christ has the answer. A wish to speak with her once more, to thank her for teaching him the truth, gives way to a closing plea for help to carry on and strength to stay strong. It's a song about mourning without losing faith, where missing someone and trusting God are not opposites but companions.