All This Despair Forgiven (!)

Pilgrim across the water
We are the same brother
Hitchhiking back to Zion
Holding our tears as we flip the album
What if this leads to ruin?
You got a soul, use it
All this despair forgiven
Rolling away on the Wheel of Sevens
Sings like the Queen of Sheba
Voice through a Blonde Speaker
One dropping bubble and Leslie
Calling me home like Haile Selassie

Pilgrim beside the fire
It's been a long winter
We got a lot in common
Cover our heads as they split the atom
All of our days are numbered
I'll take in some comfort in knowing the wave has crested
Knowing I don't have to be an exception
Children they fill the bleachers
One is the next Caesar
Keep all their minds collected
Until he comes
Until he comes

How do you make a day in plain sight?
Too good to be true

I seen, I seen, I seen stranger things man

I seen, I seen that tree of smoke

Yeah

I seen, I seen, I seen, I seen stranger things happen
Happen before

Pilgrim up on the mountain
Barefoot and still climbing?
Filling the book of hours
Day after day in the filth and squalor
We are the chosen people
Safe from the next evil
One love!
Magnetic memory
Reel after reel
Spinning infinitely

I had the wildest dream last night
I was swimming with you in that cenote the Heavens made with black fire
Just woke up too soon

I seen, I seen, I seen stranger things man
I seen, I seen those daytime ghosts

Yeah

I seen, I seen, I seen
I seen stranger things happen
Happen before

I seen, I seen, I seen the strangest things man
I seen, I seen that tree of smoke

Yeah

I seen, I seen, I seen stranger things happen
Happen before

-Bright Eyes, Haile Selassie

Now I sing "You are my help"

Our Great God

Lord we are weak and frail helpless in the storm. Surround us with your angels; hold us in your arms. Our cold and ruthless enemy, his pleasure is our harm; RISE UP, O Lord, and he will flee before our sovereign God.

I once was lost but now am found; was blind but now I see!

Life Is Undivided

We read Matthew 11:28-9 in our Call to Confession today at church, an interesting and cool choice for thinking about confessing sin. Sin and other people's sin become such heavy burdens, wearying, and Jesus is GENTLE and HUMBLE in heart. I want to have those qualities and receive them from the Lord, as I want people in my life who share these amazing qualities. God says "give me your failure, guilt, shame, pain and receive rest for your soul". And today, I have wept for joy, not sorrow. Gratitude has replaced pain somehow, and HE HAS MADE ME GLAD. Give us contrite hearts.

I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Horatius Bonar 1846--not the first song of his I've quoted here..)

1. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“Come unto Me and rest;
Lay down, O weary one lay down,
Your head upon My breast.”
I came to Jesus as I was,
So weary, worn and sad;
I found in Him my resting place,
And He has made me glad.

2. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“Behold I freely give
The living water; thirsty one,
Stoop down and drink, and live.”
I came to Jesus, and I drank
From that life-giving stream
My thirst was quenched, my soul revived,
And now I live in Him.

3. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“I am this dark world’s light;
Look unto Me, thy morn shall rise,
And all thy days be bright.”
I looked to Jesus, and I found
In Him my star, my sun;
And in that light of life I’ll walk
’Til pilgrim days are done.

God help me to make sure that I seek/worship You alone and not put my hope in any human.