Far Better From His Hand
Shara, the Dove · A paraphrase of Genesis 8
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Seven days after the raven refuses to return, Noah sends a dove out into the same empty sky. She comes back with nothing to hold on to — until the second flight, when she returns with a single olive leaf caught between her feet: proof, small and gray-green, that a tree somewhere had survived. In Radical Trust, Shara doesn’t explain the leaf. She explains why it’s enough: "I would rather have what is bitter from Hashem’s hands than anything sweet from the hands of flesh and blood" — a line the ancient rabbis attributed to this very dove in the Talmud, centuries before it became her line here1. Far Better From His Hand is that conviction set to music: that whatever comes from God’s hand, however small or unlooked-for, outweighs anything the world could offer in its place.
Lyrics
Lyrics by Michael Rainwater · Composed by Michael Rainwater, Suno · © 2026 Michael Rainwater. All rights reserved.
Verse 1
Across the waters, dark and wide,
The silent waves became our guide.
We waited on the promised day,
Though skies were still a shade of gray.
Verse 2
One little leaf was all I bore,
Yet Noah smiled once more.
The smallest gift from God’s own hand
Proclaimed His promise still would stand.
Chorus
Far Better from His Hand,
Than all the world can know.
Far Better from His Hand,
His wisdom feeds my soul.
Verse 3
The window opened wide at last,
The waiting days were fading past.
As one small leaf brought hope anew,
Lord, let my life point all to You.
Bridge
I’d rather bitterness from my Lord,
Than sweetness from all human hands.
For every gift He chooses well;
His love is more than I can tell.
Chorus
Far Better from His Hand,
Than all the world can know.
Far Better from His Hand.
His wisdom feeds my soul.
Ending
One little leaf became my song;
His faithful love led all along.
Far Better from His Hand I’ll sing,
Forever praising Christ my King.
1. Steinsaltz, A. (Trans.). (2017). Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin (William Davidson ed.). Koren Publishers; William Davidson Foundation. sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.108b.17