Friday, September 5, 2008

You Can't Stop the Ocean
You can't stop the ocean
You're better off chaisng wind
Can't stop the ocean

You can't stop emotion
You might as well give up now:
Share your emotions.

You can't save the world-
You might as well change the past.
Can't save the world.

You can't have everything.
You might as well envy God.
Can't have everything.

You can't live forever
You might as well face that now
You won't live forever.

You're not a stranger
He knit you together and knows your heart
You are no stranger.

We have limitations,
if you buck up and take it now,
you'll dodge the ocean.

You can't stop the ocean
You might as well chase the wind.
Can't stop the ocean.

Fleeting Image
Far too stressed by your own creation
to be my creation
You're too preoccupied by your own reflection
to be my reflection.
Hate finds you wicked
and turns you a victim
to numbers and others alike.

Reaching for a fleeting image
Hurting for a dying cause
Cry out, just sight loud.
You'll get what you ask for.
Now alter the fears that drive the tears.

Lets just hope that you can keep the truth down.
[Awaken]

Can't you see that I had a plan for you,
A book for you?
Now run to me, run to me.
Don't curve your eyes. Run to me!

Such disposition
to what has been given.
This vision should change one last time.

Reaching for a fleeting image
Hurting for a dying cause.
Cry out, just sight loud.
You'll get what you ask for.
Now alter the fears that drive the tears, that drive...

He bled so you could handle this,
but that you don't just kills me.
[Are you there? Is all of you there?]
I've seen it: we're all faulter prone,
but He died so we could change that.
[Are you there? Is all of you there?]

Reaching for a fleeting image.
Hurting for a dying cause.
Cry out, just sigh loud.
You'll get what you ask for!
Now alter the fears that drive the tears, that drive...

Lets just hope that you can keep the truth
[keep the truth]
down.

He bled so you could handle this,
and that you don't just kills me.
I've seen it: we're all faulter prone.

Awake in you.

Beacon
If its off the beaten path, so be it.
I'd walk through fire just to see Your face.
And if I can't see where I'm going...
I'll keep on walking now, I'll keep my faith.
I'll make Disciples for You.
I'll carry my cross, and hang on it too.
I'll burn for You.
I'll die to myself!
You won't need me in the way,
but in Your Will.
Remove my face and replace it
with Your Grace.
If its off the beaten path... so be it!
I'd walk through fire just to see Your face.
If yesterday is gone, then tomorrow
is sure to shine with guiding lights.
[You know] I'll make Disciples for You
I'll carry my cross, and hang on it too.
I'll burn for You
I'll die to myself!
You won't need me in the way,
but in Your Will.
Remove my face and replace it
with Your Grace
Take me from the path
that leads to 'normalcy'.
Yeah...
Take me from the path
that leads to 'normalcy'.
I'll make Disciples for You.
See holes in my hands and burdens sent through
I'll burn for You.
I'll die to myself - You don''t need me in the way,
but in Your Will...
Remove my face and replace it with Your...
Remove my face and replace it with Your...
Remove my face and replace it with Your
Grace.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Resolve

Shadows set the mood
Innocence left the room...
and all I know to do is shed a tear for you.
Please don't be ashamed whether you win or lose,
I just want you to know that I'm proud of you.
Don't be afraid when your fight is through,
I just need you to know that I'm here with you.

I can't watch you choose
to pour salt in your wounds,
now all I know to do is say a prayer for you
Please don't be ashamed whether you win or lose,
I just want you to know that I'm proud of you!

Don't be afraid when your fight is through,
I just need you to know that I'm here with you!
--10 Years, "Proud Of You"

This isn't just happiness, or excitement, or resolved anticipation. No, this is so much greater. This is a revelation all its own. Can words describe? If they can then I don't want to hear them, because they cannot compare - for this is God. Will the turning of one single gear ignite the spark of a life-sized mechanism? Has the broken bone healed so that the crutch may be tossed aside for good?

God only knows!