He Weaves Into Glory
I can't do this alone
I need you to come near
Sit with me today
There's nothing to say
Just don't disappear
It's a long, hard road
That the Lord walks with us
It's a miracle true
After all we've been through
He can teach us to trust
CHORUS:
In a cold, dark world
That's broken by sin
Any hint of hope
Is like a candle within
We are not alone;
Christ whispers our story:
The threads of our pain,
Tattered and frayed,
He weaves into glory
I can't do this alone
I need you to come near
Sit with me today
There's nothing to say
Just don't disappear
It's a long, hard road
That the Lord walks with us
It's a miracle true
After all we've been through
He can teach us to trust
CHORUS:
In a cold, dark world
That's broken by sin
Any hint of hope
Is like a candle within
We are not alone;
Christ whispers our story:
The threads of our pain,
Tattered and frayed,
He weaves into glory
I hurt you again,
For the ten thousandth time
But you’re not keeping score;
You forgive me once more,
With a power divine
We may not have tomorrow,
But forever’s for sure
‘Cause our hope’s not in us,
The “frail children of dust,”
But in the One who endures
CHORUS:
In a cold, dark world
That's broken by sin
Any hint of hope
Is like a candle within
We are not alone;
Christ whispers our story:
The threads of our pain,
Tattered and frayed,
He weaves into glory
Living Water (A Widower’s Song)
How I miss the color of her smile
The living light she'd pour into my day
A breathing of the air again, a whisper to my trusted friend,
A gathering of life upon her face
Chorus:
I want to say this to the children:
Life is harder than you ever thought it would be
But in the darkness of the pain,
Standing on the edge of hell,
What is true may still be hidden,
Like a book high on a shelf
Persevere in love, my sons and daughters,
Do not leave the well
You will find the living water
When you serve someone besides yourself
How I miss the color of her smile
The living light she'd pour into my day
A breathing of the air again, a whisper to my trusted friend,
A gathering of life upon her face
Chorus:
I want to say this to the children:
Life is harder than you ever thought it would be
But in the darkness of the pain,
Standing on the edge of hell,
What is true may still be hidden,
Like a book high on a shelf
Persevere in love, my sons and daughters,
Do not leave the well
You will find the living water
When you serve someone besides yourself
It wasn't even easy in our youth
Clinging to each other, and the Truth
Misunderstandings, pain, and sin; the temptation to just give in,
The Presence and the prayers to see us through
CHORUS
Bridge:
And when she could not stand; her voice could barely speak;
The cruel creeping of age, making us so weak;
I did not walk away, though tempted to at times
We grew in love each day, through a strength somehow divine
CHORUS
How Fragile My Faith
(chorus)
How fragile my faith
How precarious my prayers
How daring my doubt
Following my footsteps
Just a breath in front of God
Twenty-seven years ago
I made a promise to the sky
Shaking my small fist at Him
I never needed so to cry
"You have never left me,
Never let me get away,
But I have never wanted You
To hold me, 'til today."
CHORUS
(chorus)
How fragile my faith
How precarious my prayers
How daring my doubt
Following my footsteps
Just a breath in front of God
Twenty-seven years ago
I made a promise to the sky
Shaking my small fist at Him
I never needed so to cry
"You have never left me,
Never let me get away,
But I have never wanted You
To hold me, 'til today."
CHORUS
I had to take a drive out West,
I had to get away from here
I had to see them face to face,
The few I hold so dear
My sister, crying with me, as I
Wept on her back porch--
I felt so far from God, she said,
"You don't need to anymore."
(bridge)
Is this hand from heaven
Someone I can trust,
Or is it hurting me?
Does He hold me out to dangle
Over the flame,
Or hold me to His breast,
like a child?
CHORUS
How fragile my faith
How precarious my prayers
I'm leaning on grace
The troubled waters of my heart
So need the calming breath of God...