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I see a hand reaching out to help me But I don't understand all of your ways You are still the potter and I am just the clay And though I know at times I am too proud To reach for you,to help me out But if I waited on myself to get it right I would be waiting here forever Your grace is never going to change Your faith always will remain Your love is the same as yesterday, today, and forever I see a world looking for an answer But I don't know what for When will we realize that we're sinners In the hands of a loving God who came And died and wants to set us free How he longs to be with you and me But if we waited on the truth to change We would be waiting here forever
Joyful joyful we adore thee God of glory Lord of love Hearts unfold like flowers before thee Opening to the sun above Melt the clouds of sin and sadness Drive the dark of doubt away Giver of immortal gladness Fill us with the light of day Thou art giving and forgiving Ever blessing ever blest Well spring of joy of living Ocean depth of happy rest Thou our father Christ our brother All who live in love are thine Teach us now to love each other Lift us to the joy divine Mortals sing the happy chorus Which the morning stars began Father love is reigning o'er us Brother love binds man to man Ever singing march we onward Victors in the midst of strife Joyful music leads us sunward In the triump song of life
Politicians, morticians, philistines, homophobes Skinheads, dead heads, tax evaders, street kids Alcoholics, workaholics, wise guys, dim wits Blue collars, white collars, war mongers, peaceniks Breathe deep breathe deep the breath of God Breathe deep breathe deep the breath of God Suicidals, rock idols, shut-ins, drop outs Friendless, homeless, pennyless, and depressed Presidents, residents, foreigners, and aliens Dissidents, feminists, xenophobes, and chauvinists Evolutionists, creationists, perverts, slumlords Deadbeats, athletes, Protestants, and Catholics Housewives, neophytes, pro-choice, pro-life Misogynists, monogamists, philanthropists, black and white Gays and lesbians, demagogues and thespians The disabled and preachers, doctors and teachers Meat eaters, wife beaters, judges and juries Long hairs, no hairs, everybody everywhere Breathe deep breathe deep the breath of God
Day by day I wake to your wonders In so many ways And each time I start looking around I can see the heavens And my heart goes round and round I can't stop thinking about you I can't stop thinking about you I can't imagine living without you If I go Millions of miles away Still I know By my side you always will stay And when my life goes tumbling down I can see Your hand Picking me up off the ground That's why I can't stop thinking about you I can't stop thinking about you I can't imagine living without you Cause there is nobody else Who loves me like you do I can't stop thinking about you
I know a girl who was schooled in Manhattan She reads dusty books and learns phrases in Latin She is an author, or maybe a poet A genius, but this world just doesn't know it She works on her novel most everyday If you laugh she will say Seize the day Seize whatever you can Cause life slips away Just like hour glass sand Seize the day Pray for grace from God's hand Then nothing will stand in your way Seize the day Well I know a doctor, a fine young physcian Left his six figure job for a mission position He's healing the sick in an African clinic He works in the dirt and writes home to the cynics We work through the night so most everyday As we watch the sunrise we can say I know a man who's been doing some thinking He's as bitter and cold as the whiskey's he's drinking He's talking 'bout fear, about chances not taken If you listen to him you can hear his heart breaking He says "One day you're a boy and the next you're dead" "I wish way back when someone had said" Well one thing I've noticed wherever I wander Everyone's got a dream he can follow or squander You can do what you will with the days you are given I'm trying to spend mine on the business of living So I'm singing my songs off of any old stage You can laugh if you want I'll still say
Excuse me oh don't you know me I am the one who's been here all you rlife Tell me haven't you seen me Do you believe that I am here by your side You oughta know by now When the winds are a blowin' You oughta know by now When the storms are a growin' You oughta know by now I am your sun on a rainy day Do you ever recall when your life was fallin' And I was the net Or do you contine to see through The way that I saved you You seem to forget And I know you will always have those doubts Bringing you down But you don't know I will never let you go Oh don't you know
Sometimes things that people say Hurt me more than they know Even friends can let you down But I don't let it show As I travel this windering road One thing that I've learned Is sticks and stones can break my bones But nothing in this world can take me from you Sometimes I stand all alone I feel misunderstood No one else knows how it feels When I've done all that I could You loved Judas You were betrayed with a kiss When I'm hurting You're there for me at times like this Sticks and stones can break my bones But nothing in this world can take me from you Sticks and stones can break my bones But nothing in this world can take me from you
I am humbled by your holiness I live my life in a holy fear I am taken by your tenderness It's your kindness that draws me near I find pleasure in your providence And how you knew me before I was known I can't fathom your faithfulness You'll never leave me alone And it's your mercy that amazes me Salvation shrouded in a mystery It's in spite of my humanity That your mercy It amazes me You are maker of heaven and earth You are the author of my faith You made me this image of you You're my only saving grace How majestic is your name You are the Lord, three in one You have pardoned me of my sins And you have adopted me as your sin Your mercy that amazes me Salvation shrouded in a mystery And it's in spite of my humanity That your mercy Yes, it's your mercy, your mercy that amazes me Salvation shrouded in a mystery How could you give your life for one like me It's your mercy It's your mercy that amazes me It's amazing, it's your mercy that amazes me It's your mercy I am humbled by your holiness How you knew me before I was known Oh, your mercy's amazing Can't believe it How could you give your life for one like me It's your mercy that amazes me It's amazing
In the submarines and the tanks In the SEL's and banks In the cancer wards, the prisons and bars On the earth and on the moon In the closet in your room In the flophouses, the think tanks and the farms To the salesperson forever trying to sell To the faithful daughter walking to the well Oh pray where you are Pray where you are In the fields and in the factories There's no limits, rules, or boundaries At work, or school, or driving in you car Pray where you are In the strip joints and the church On a desperate lost child search On the airplanes and backroads and the rails On the blacktops and beaches Down the sewer and up the creek In the penthouse and the poolhalls and the jails To the criminal with no one left to con To the movie star whose day as come and gone Pray where you are To the junkie with his back against the wall To the lawman who breaks another law In a desert, by the shore In a peacetime, in a war In the pentagon, the courtrooms, and the malls In the tents and in the caves At the truckstop and by the graves In our hopes and fears, our struggles great and small To the corner prophet no one seems to hear To the president who prays for four more years Oh pray where you are