calling Your children

While digging through stacks of old papers, in the process of cleaning I uncovered a scrap.

Lyrics to a song that has no melody but rhythm that resonates in my spirit.

Now that I have reclaimed it perhaps music will come forth.

You Are calling Your children to draw closer

You will gather us together

to sit around Your throne

You desire us all to linger in Your presence

You Are glory

You Are shelter

You Are home

You Are what we cry for

a love we've never known

all we've ever needed

is You and You alone

and yes, we will dance

when You ask us to dance

and yes, we will sing out Your name

our Father

our Savior

the Spirit of life

forever and ever the same

Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have the run of the house. 

Give it plenty of room in your lives. 

Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. 

And sing, sing your hearts out to God! 

Let every detail in your lives

—words, actions, whatever—

be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, 

thanking God the Father every step of the way. 

Colossians 3:16 The Message