Roll away your stone, I'll roll away mine. (Y-not question the Sunday Readings)

by Oh Yet We Trust, Brisbane, Sunday, April 24, 2011, 10:00 (760 days ago) @ Ynot
edited by Oh Yet We Trust, Sunday, April 24, 2011, 10:13

Thank you Tony for this moving reflection and the wonderful Friday poem. It's good to know that even with all the questioning and even lack of clear 'answers' that you/we can still be moved by this most incredible of stories, lives, realities - that of Jesus.

May the hope of this day fill you to the full. And may the stubborn boulders that refuse our Lord's living, be rolled away once and for all. He could do it but he gives the choice to us.

Stephen

Roll Away Your Stone

Roll away your stone I will roll away mine
Together we can see what we will find
Don't leave me alone at this time
For I'm afraid of what I will discover inside

You told me that I would find a home
Within the fragile substance of my soul
And I have filled this void with things unreal
And all the while my character it steals

Darkness is a harsh term don't you think
Yet it dominates the things I see

It seems that all my bridges have been burned
But you say 'That's exactly how this grace thing works’
It's not the long walk home that will change this heart
But the welcome I receive with a re-start

Darkness is a harsh term don't you think
And yet it dominates the things I see (x2)

Stars hide your fires
For these here are my desires
And I won't give them up to you this time around
And so I will be found
With my stake stuck in this ground
Marking the territory of this newly impassioned soul (x2)

And you, you've gone too far this time
You have neither reason nor rhyme
With which to take this soul that is so rightfully mine

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A bit insipid next to Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" or Bach's "St Matthew's Passion" (both which I also love) but it somehow works for me on a newer different level.

Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill