So yesterday, in a sun-break during the worst deluge in 80-something Pensacola years, a funny thing happened. I had to drop our son off for choir rehearsal at 8:30 a.m., and then since I had 30 minutes to kill before they sang, I decided to drive the short mile to the bay park downtown to see if they had yet reopened the restaurant where we had been scheduled to celebrate my daughter’s 19th birthday the previous evening. Right around this time, some blue sky shoved its way in between a few moving clouds, and it was so beautiful I decided to park and take a moment to watch the powerful water. Just as I was trying to recall the words of Psalm 46 that I’ve been trying to memorize (“Therefore we will not fear though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam…” (I looked it up:-)) — a large wave crashed against the sea wall, and the spray from the wave shot up and rained down — heavier than being caught in a sprinkler but not quite like a bucket of water tossed — on me. I tried to take a self-pic to show how wet I was, but it doesn’t quite capture the moment. Anyway, driving back to church (and trying to decide if I would actually enter in my slightly sodden state), my Ipod landed on this song by All Songs and Daughters. I laughed — indeed, “we’ve been soaked in all the grace that we’ve been given.” (Which brings to mind the thought that grace doesn’t always look like we think it should, but that’s fodder for another day:).
Anthony Hoisington, Chris Hoisington, Leslie Jordan and David Leonard
© 2011 Integrity’s Praise! Music/BMI and Integrity’s Alleluia! Music/SESAC CCLI#5881082
This is a call to all the dead and disappointed
The ones who feel like they are done
This is a word to all the ones who feel forgotten
But you are not
Oh you are not
We’re alive, alive, alive we’re singing
We’re alive, alive, alive and we’re shaken
We’re alive, alive, alive, alive in You
We are soaked in all the grace that we’ve been given
Unchained from all that we have done
Your mercy’s rising like the sun on the horizon
We’re coming home
We’re alive, alive, alive we’re singing
We’re alive, alive, alive and we’re shaken
We’re alive, alive, alive, alive in You
