awesome song lyrics

Poverty
is hard to see
when it's only on your t.v.
or 20 miles across town,
where we're all living so good
that we moved out of Jesus' neighborhood
where He's hungry and not feeling so good
from going through our trash...
So what must we do?
Here in the west we want to follow you
we speak the language
and we keep all the rules
even a few we made up.
He says
'Come on and follow me,
sell your house, sell your SUV
sell your stocks, sell your security,
and give it to the poor.'
Well what is this? Hey what's the deal?
I don't sleep around and I don't steal.
'But I want the things you just can't give me.'

- Derek Webb, from "The Rich Young Ruler"
(See Matthew 19 :16-22:
A young man came up to Jesus, saying, "Teacher, what good deeds must I do to inherit eternal life?... I have kept all of
the commandments. What do I lack?"
Jesus said to him, "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you posses and give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in
heaven; and come, follow me."
When the young man heard this he went away sad, because he had great possessions.
Jesus said to His disciples, "Truly, only with difficulty will a rich person enter into the kingdom of heaven.")


"I'm sorry I didn't always have a match
that could start a fire big enough for your heart to catch
and I'm sorry if my heart breaking ruined you day."
-Jewel, "Sometimes It Be That Way"


"I tried to forget you but you tied bells to your name."
-Jewel, "Love Me, Just Leave Me Alone"

"I go about my business,
I'm doing fine,
Besides what would I say if I had you on the line?
Same old story, not much to say,
hearts are broken everyday."
-Jewel

"They say, 'What good have you done.
by saving just this one?
It's like trying to stop a fire
with the moisture from a kiss!'
But it's not the world that I am changing.
I do this so,
this world may know,
that it will not change me."
-Garth Brooks

"He could've prospered in the suburbs,
instead of working for the poor,
down at the inner city mission,
where there's so much disappointment
and very few rewards.
For every victory there's a failure,
on these harsh and empty streets.
But if you ask what keeps him going,
he says, 'I know where I'd be
if Christ had given up on me.' "
-Ginny Owens

"Muscle and sinew,
velvet and stone
this vessel is haunted
it creaks and moans.
My bones call to you
in this spearate skin.
I make myself translucent
to let you in.
I am wanting
and I am needing you here
inside the absence of fear."
-Jewel

"Two months was
too little
they let him go
they had no
sudden healing.
To think
that providence would
take a child from his mother while she prayed
is appalling.
We're asking
why this happens
to us who have died to live.
It's unfair.
This is what it means
to be held,
how it feels
when the sacred is torn from your life
and you survive.
This is what it is
to be held,
and to know
that the promise was when everything fell
we'd be held.
If hope is born of suffering,
if this is only the beginning,
can we not wait
for one hour
watching for our savior?"
- "Held", by Natalie Grant