the song comes
“Only he who cries… is permitted to sing…” is what Bonhoeffer said.
Only those authentic enough to lament, are authentic enough to love.
When everything is stripped away and you have nothing left and in all your bare vulnerability, there is communion with God.
– Ann Voskamp
I am bare naked
Down to my bones
Even my comfortable skin is gone
I shiver as the cold blows through me
I have cried many tears
My song has been watered to full growth
Maturity does not come without cost
Yet it comes
as I struggle
in grief to lament
in disappointment to love
in silence to commune
in lessons to learn
in everything to choose
making the difficult choices
which bring integrity
that bring the song
that fills the coming of spring
with joy
and the whole world
With light and love
AL 2/18/13
life: acoustic & amplified 