She's back! Today she's been singing a lot and thinking in pictures. Looking back over the last several posts, she's kind of sad -- there's no poetry there, just ramblings. But that's okay...just read the 2005/2006 stuff!! :) She was really singing then.

So in the middle of a study break with spiders on my brain...here goes:

She's not quite up to singing in the microphone like she used to...but hey, she always sounds better singing in the shower anyways...so that's what she does today.

It is Easter and her heart is just about to burst because hope has come. As the water washes over her, she remembers as waves of mercy, of grace, of peace have washed over her and it was all because of this one day -- Easter.

She clears her throat, closes her eyes as pictures of Him come to her and she sings:

I'm captured by this beauty I see
Though tears fall and it's bittersweet
I cannot look to my own ugly form for fear of shame
As I find myself crying out Your Name
I am kneeling, broken, confused
Jesus, I don't know what to do

Here I am at Calvary
Again asking the question, "why me?"
You looked right at me as Your blood poured down
I could still see Your eyes through Your thorny crown
They were lovely, pure and true
Your lips parted and all I heard was, "Because I love you"

I hesitated to touch Your feet where they hung
As my heart in torment wrung
For You were beaten savagely and Your flesh was flailed
Your shoulders dislocated as Your wrists were nailed
That should have been me for all my wretched filth and stain
But You said, "I'll take your sorrows; I'll bear the pain"

What beauty that by Your stripes we're healed
That our deserved death penalty you repealed
Father, how could You send Your only boy?
Why does my heart tremble with such Joy?
Is it because I am here before You now
Where everything's as it should have been how

For by Your sacrifice of immeasurable worth
I live with eternal hope on earth
For You set me free, over the chasm I soared
I walk each step with You, our hearts in accord
No longer separated by my disgrace and shame
But forgiven and restored by the power of Your Name

Lord, my heart could burst with such love
I lift my eyes to the heavens above
No longer the Messiah's Cross before me
But You, Yourself -- Risen Redeemer, Majesty
My heart is home, I breathe in -- alive
It's time to sing hope, to revive, to thrive

Your Love surpassed all expectation
Your Strength beyond any temptation
You bought us back to the place
Where we walk with You forever in grace
Let Your Hope ring out as I praise You, Lord
Thank You for Easter, Your mercy action word