Born to parents who knew how
Without knowing why
I knew my father's love
Though not yet from above
Raised to know wrong and right
I kept the latter in my sight
Until I began to fight
And dimmed God's light
By poor choices
Listening to wrong voices
God sent me an incarnation
It was show and tell
But more show than tell
I saw it well
And I fell
Out of journalism and into eternalism
Serving Jesus and His kids
With all my life
Soon joined by my wife
And the creative God let us create with Him
Didn't see that one coming
Times two
Then everything changed
Sickness and suffering were our graduate course
To teach us that
Of course
Jesus is not our supplemental insurance plan
He does not need to be backed up
He is solid state in the eternal state
He is before all and in all
He is all
And He wants all
Everything
Absolute surrender
A living sacrifice
A burnt offering
Really
So we four stood together
Arms raised in worship and surrender
And called down fire from heaven
To burn away the leaven
All the idols
No such thing as an innocent idol
He is patient but thorough
We asked and He delivered
We suffer more and surrender more
To conform to the image of Jesus more
An idol
Or the furnace
For Shadrach and company there was no real choice
Why should we think there is for us
His fire has given us a thirst
That can't be quenched
For all of Him and all of His Kingdom
And all of His new wine
He is intoxicating
Only He will satisfy
When you find the Pearl of Great Price
It's not just nice
You sell all you have
All you thought
Or hoped
Or dreamed of having
Without thinking twice
Eighteen years ago
He broke me like a horse
But LINC-ed me back together
Of course
Wife and daughter and son
Broken too
With no remorse
All the way through to the core
Yet we want more
It was a great run
But we've been re-ruined by the Son
Though it might seem strange
It's time for change
A Divine rearrange
A Sondance
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