Homeward Bound

I don’t know
Which way is
True North
Call to me
I will follow
ONE voice

Let Go

Drink up baby down
Are you in or are you out?
Leave your things behind
'Cause it's all going off without you
Excuse me too busy you're writing your tragedy
These mishaps
You bubble-wrap
When you've no idea what you're like

[Chorus:]
So, let go,let go
Jump in
Oh well, what you waiting for?
It's all right
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
So, let go, l-let go
Just get in
Oh, it's so amazing here
It's all right
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown

It gains the more it gives
And then it rises with the fall
So hand me that remote
Can't you see that all that stuff's a sideshow?
Such boundless pleasure
We've no time for later
Now you can't await
your own arrival
you've twenty seconds to comply

[Chorus:]
So, let go, so let go
Jump in
Oh well, what you waiting for?
It's alright
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
So, let go, yeah let go
Just get in
Oh, it's so amazing here
It's all right
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown



[Chorus:]
So, let go, so let go
Jump in
Oh well, what you waiting for?
It's alright
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
So, let go, yeah let go
Just get in
Oh, it's so amazing here
It's all right
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown

In the breakdown
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
The breakdown

So amazing here
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown

(froufrou)

We Are Because He Is

He who has formed you is the One who
completes you.

He who takes your breath away is the One who is
the air you breathe.

He who loves you for always is the One who
lives in you.

He who lives in you is the One who
formed, created you.

He who created you is the One who
refines you.

He who refines you is the One who
restores you.

He who calls you by name is the One who
puts his praise in your heart.

He who gives you ability to repent is the One who
redeems you.

He who redeems you is the One who
keeps you from sin.

He who keeps and preserves you is the One who
gives you the words to pray.

He who dwells in your heart,
He is God.

He is the Beginning and
He is the End.

He is your beginning and your end.

Because He is all, you lack nothing,
you will be satisfied in Him.

Because He who is glorious, whose kingdom is forever,
reigns in you,

Because He who is the I AM is within you,
shout, cry aloud for joy!

He is God and
there is no other.
Praise Him forever
and forever and forever.

You've been given eternity to
give back what He has given.

The Lord is beautiful.

The Lord reigns in majesty.

The Lord is King and reigns victoriously.

He who is King delights in the love song you sing.

We Sang a Gospel Song

Thou, whose almighty Word
Chaos and darkness heard,
And took their flight;
Hear us, we humbly pray,
And, where the Gospel’s day
Sheds not its glorious ray,
Let there be light!

Thou, who didst come to bring
On Thy redeeming wing
Healing and sight,
Health to the sick in mind,
Sight to the inly blind,
O now, to all mankind,
Let there be light!

Spirit of truth and love,
Life giving, holy Dove,
Speed forth Thy flight;
Move on the water’s face
Bearing the lamp of grace,
And, in earth’s darkest place,
Let there be light!

Blessèd and holy Three,
Glorious Trinity,
Wisdom, love, might!
Boundless as ocean’s tide,
Rolling in fullest pride,
Through the world far and wide,
Let there be light!

-John Marriott

Colossians 3:5-15

All these things you see
That come from down here--
Kill them.
Anything that pulls our attention away
From what (I mean WHO) is above
Needs to be thrown away.

These rags you've been wearing,
They stink.
You reek like a dead man with them on.
Take it off-
After all you're not dead anymore,
But alive.

All your trash,
The sex, dirty thoughts, uncontrollable desires,
Obsessively wanting what your next door neighbor's got--
Stop it!

Don't you know that it's those clothes that get burned up?
Don't get burned up with it by the One above.

You used to wear those things when
You lived across the tracks.
But you're in a new house now,
Living somewhere else-act like it.

Stop being angry and irritable.
Don't say mean things or even think them.

Momma used to say,
"Don't talk like that
Or I'll wash your mouth out with soap"
Talk different,
Talk like the soap tastes-
Clean.

And be honest.
Don't make up stories to be dramatic
Or get yourself out of hot water.
Be different than all the rest.
Be a new person
Who's becoming like the One
Who rescued and brought you to this place.

He's the One who brought us together.
He's the garbage man, too,
He's throwing all the old clothes out
And making all of us better.

So stand in front of that mirror
And see that He loves you,
Even in your nakedness.

Open the closet doors
And see the clothes
He made for you.

We got silk
And fine linen
In all this kindness and caring for each other.
And forgiving, too,and being patient--
It's like the loosest, breathiest cotton
On a hot summer day.
And it's easier to forgive
When you remember how He brought us here.

But the best piece
All of us got

Is love.

It's a purple robe
Like royal kings wear.

It's the main thing
That keeps us together
Along with peace,
That also comes from Him.

Wear your new clothes
And thank Him.

poem

A single tear
A lonely soul
Falling—
Catch the diamonds.
There is rugged
Crystal shine
In these
Sharp things.

In Tent Cities

Intense,
This living
In tents.
Always motion
The making and
Breaking of camp

Until Spirit finds
spirit
Until Lover meets
Beloved
No more temporary
Dwelling spaces

ONE fire
Consumes
Physical traces.

Rest.