You are Beautiful, my childAnd I know that you are scaredThings are not as you’d hoped they would beBut I want you to knowAlthough you feel aloneI am with you and am working to set you free This is not the life I want for youOr a pain I want you to endureBut this world is not what I intendThough it all has gone astrayThe plans for you I’ve madeWill bring your sorrow to an end Take my hand and follow meAnd I will show you something newI will show you something trueLet me put my arms around youThat you may know that you are lovedThat you may know your…

Psalm 16:5-6 Life sure can be overwhelmingTo the point I feel so sick insideThe world appearsTo feed on my fearsAnd it seems I have no place to hide Lord, I don’t know where I’m goingThough I certainly know where I’ve beenCan you guide me alongThis path that seems wrong?Let me fall back in your arms once again The days just seem harder and harderAs if nothing I do makes a changeMy steps seem to falterAs I fall at the altarOf the world I’ve tried to arrange Some say that their cup is half emptyBut mine seems to be way too fullI struggle to carryThis cross that’s so heavyIf I set…

I want to be in the middle of the battleSo that I can see your victoryI want to be lost in the middle of the oceanWhere your power washes over me I want to stand in the middle of the fireSo that my heart can be purifiedKeep me in the middle of humiliationThat I would not know pride

I know it wasn’t me you considered As you hung there on that cross In death you won sweet victory, Bringing home so many who were lost But I’ve been left behind to suffer And to pay for all I’ve done I’ve sinned too greatly against you, Not worthy to be called your son What I’ve done is unforgivable, even for you, O God My sin is greater than your love could ever be We shall always be at odds I know I’m unforgivable and I must pay the price Cast me aside and forget me, Lord Just ignore my silent cries I can’t accept this gift you bring For…

Daddy, please forgive me I’ve gone so far away It seems like only yesterday You brought me home to stay In your arms is the only place I’d really rather be But every day I journey out without bringing you with me Every day I find myself scared and all alone Missing all your blessings — my heart longing for home For every day I walk away from the comfort of your love Confident I can live life my own way Every day I walk away For Eden doesn’t always seem enough To keep my wandering spirit at bay Daddy, please don’t leave me, though I leave you time and…

Matthew 21:21 I look down upon the valley I look out across the sea It rises up and touches the sky This powerful, immovable peak But it stands proudly between where I am And where I need to be He’s calling me to the other side To a place I cannot see This mountain stands like a monument To all that keeps me here It blocks my every move Impedes my furtive steps And binds me year after year I stand here in this valley I can smell the salt of the sea I can see how far I have traveled I’m reminded of where I used to be But…

I fill my life with so much I wonder when I’ll be satisfied I fill my time with so much more I wonder why I feel so empty I try so hard to make a difference If for no soul but my own In search of my reason for being In search of my reason for hope Then I see you standing there Reaching out to me Amidst the storm and the waves Calling out my name What am I looking for that I don’t already have? What more is there to be Than that which you made of me? When I seek my own I am lost But in…

With all of my soul I worship You With all of my joy I sing With everything I have in me I sing praises to thee With all of my heart I lift my voice With all I have I cry “You are my God, my Lord and King!” And it’s to You I sing… Before the world began, You remembered me When I was at my worst, You set me free Your smallest drop of mercy is greater than an ocean of my sin Because of Your abounding love, it’s You my hope is in With all of my soul I worship You With all of my joy I…

How many more times must I strike a nail’s head? Have I no greater purpose than to pound it ’til it’s still? I see no need to do a hard stone’s deed, why must I yield to another’s will? I could have been cast as a centurion’s spear Or a sword that would make its owner’s intentions clear Given a chance at the end of a lance to be a hero the people could cheer But instead I’m just a hammer that some nameless carpenter swings Held in the hand of a simple little man to make simple little things Indeed I’m just a tool to help another extend his…