Friday, June 25, 2010

A Great Gift

My next door neighbor is a surgical nurse at Rex Hospital.  I was fortunate that she was on duty in the OR Holding area on the day of my surgery.  It was nice to have a friendly face during a very anxious time.  Shortly after I got home she came over with a lovely gift.  It was Amy Grant's newest CD.  I have been listening to Amy Grant since I was a little girl and I was wanting her latest CD.  There was one song in particular on it that I really was loving.  But what I have discovered is that there are a lot of great songs on this CD.  So I thought I would share the words to a few of them here.

This is the song I was longing to hear.  I love it - it's called "Better Than a Hallelujah"

God loves a lullaby in a mother's tears in the dead of night
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes
God loves a drunkard's cry
the soldier's plea not to let him die
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes

We pour out our miseries, God just hears a melody
Beautiful the mess we are, the honest cries, of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

A woman holding on for life, a dying man giving up the fight
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes
Tears of shame for what's been done
The silence when the words won't come
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes

Better than a church bell rining
Better than a choir singing out, singing out

We pour out our miseries, God just hears a melody
Beautiful the mess we are, the honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah


I remind myself of this lesson over and over and over again.  Y'all know I don't do the patience thing so well - and yet God is telling me time and time again - if it happened overnight - you'd never learn to believe what you cannot see.
Overnight

So you've handed in your resignation
Contemplating why nothing turns out right
A little fed up with all the disappointment
So what's the point in wasting any time

It's only temporary
So what's your hurry
No need to worry don't you know that

If it all just happened overnight
You wouldn't know how much it means
If it all just happened overnight
You would ever learn to believe what you cannot see

I feel like m pace is at a standstill
Do I wait 'till it falls into my hands
A long highway ahead geting started
Steady hearted is what I think I am

There's something to be said for experience
Who knows what's ahead keep on going
Take it a day at a atime
One foot in front of the other
Take it a day at a time
No need to hurry
Take it a day at a atime
It won't happen overnight

Have a little faith
You must appreciate every single day
Don't give up no

This next song really cuts to my heart.  As most of you can attest - I live my life out loud - no real secrets here.  :)  But someone I love dearly does not.  This person does not open up to many people at all about what is really truly going on deep inside.  But recently this person did open up to someone other than me.  I know it's frightening for this person to do so - but I so want this person to realize that people do want to come into their world and that it's OK.

This song just sounded so much like this person I love.  It spoke to me so loudly and so clearly.

Come Into My World

Come into my world
Come crashing through the ceiling
And find the messy rooms, the scattered pearls
If you are brave then come into my world

Come into my world so lovely from the outside
So dark in here the demons dance and twirl
And find their pleasure frightening this girl
If you are brave then come into my world

Cause I never saw the changes come
or knew enough to run when this old house had come undone
And now I'm buried in the walls
And no one comes to call but you
Come into my world

Come into my world
I can not find the doorway
It's overgrowin with vines that twist and curl
If you are brave then come into my world

Come into my world
There'll be no other invitation
Not another sound another word
Nothing more than you'v already heard
Please be brave and come into my world


And some of the best lines are the simple choruses in some of the songs

Somewhere down the road
There'll be answer to the questions
Somewhere down the road
Though we cannot see it now
Somewhere down the road
You will find mighty arms reaching for you
And they will hold the answers at the end of the road

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Cause there's so much in the worst of us
So much bad in the best of us
It never makes sense for any of us
To criticize the rest of us
We'll just find what we're looking for
We'll find it and so much more


So thanks for letting me ramble - just had to get some of that out - kinda cathartic.

1 comment:

  1. Those were beautiful! I may just have to get that CD too!

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