Beauty Will Rise

My previous post reminded me of this song by Steven Curtis Chapman which is also the title of his album. All of the songs on the album are so good. (By the way, I love the centering option-I just realized recently it was there on the tool bar).

 

 

It was the day the world went wrong

I screamed till my voice was gone

And watched through the tears

As everything came crashing down

 

Slowly panic turns to pain

As we awake to what remains

And sift through the ashes

That are left behind

 

But buried deep beneath all our broken dreams

We have this hope

 

Out of the ashes

Beauty will rise

And we will dance among the ruins

We will see it with our own eyes

Out of these ashes

Beauty will rise

For we know joy is coming

In the morning

 

In the morning

Beauty will rise

 

So take another breath for now

And let the tears come washing down

And if you can't believe

I will believe for you

 

'Cause I have seen the signs of spring

Just watch and see

 

Out of these ashes,

Beauty will rise

And we will dance among the ruins

We will see it with our own eyes

 

Out of this darkness

New life will shine

And we'll know joy is coming in the morning

 

In the morning,

I can hear it in the distance

And it's not too far away

It's the music

And the laughter of a wedding and a feast

 

(Right now there is a beautiful version of For the Beauty of the Earth playing on Pandora that I have never heard before. Thank you for that!)

 

I can almost feel the hand of God

Reaching for my face to wipe the tears away

You say "It's time to make everything new

Making it all new"

 

This is our hope

This is a promise

This is our hope

This is a promise

 

It will take our breath away

To see the beauty that He's made out of the ashes

Out of the ashes

Out of the ashes