all this untouched beauty

Because this is meant to be a site on which I let the world know what's been going on in my life and in my head, I thought I'd post the words to a song that I absolutely haven't been able to get out of my head over the last few days. The song is by Over the Rhine, a favorite of mine. Unfortunately, the song includes a word that I try to leave out of my vocabulary . . . not good when the entire song is stuck in your head. :) But I'll change the word for this. Anyway, this song really resonates with something deep inside of me because there are so many days when i grow weary of the things of this world and long to see the world redeemed. My heart screams out, "Jesus come! Turn this world around." I love the line, "I look for redemption in everyone" because I do. In the people I work with, in the homeless man playing his guitar on the street corner, and the barista who gives me my coffee, I know there is a story waiting to be told. And I know there is a longing in their hearts to be redeemed by God. So until Jesus does come, I will continue to pray that He makes the story of his redemption known through me . . . through the "untouched beauty" and despite the battle between "the light the dark both running through me."

Changes Come

Changes come/ Turn my world around

I have my father's hand/ I have my mother's tongue/ I look for redemption in everyone

I wanna wear your ring/ I have a song to sing/ It ain't over babe/ In fact it's just begun

Changes come/ Turn my world around/ Changes come/ Bring the whole thing down

I wanna have our baby/ Somedays I think that maybe/ This ol' world's too messed up/ For any firstborn son

There is all this untouched beauty/ The light the dark both running through me/ Is there still redemption for anyone

Jesus come/ Turn the world around/ Lay my burden down/ Turn this world around/ Bring the whole thing down/ Bring it down