Singing a Prayer

Sometimes it's too hard to pray. So I find a song that says what I mean, and I sing it. It's not pretty, my neighbors and kids suffer, but it gets it out. This song, by Switchfoot, is so perfect. I have to sing along with Mandy Moore so that I'm not screeching so terribly... but the Switchfoot version is better (video below).

Sometimes life brings us to our knees. It's in that position that I most successfully communicate with my Savior, who loves me personally and perfectly.  Read it and sing it if you need to. This is where I am.

Only Hope

There's a song that's inside of my soul

It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again

I'm awake in the infinite cold

But You sing to me over and over and over again

So I lay my head back down

And I lift my hands

and pray to be only Yours

I pray to be only Yours

I know now you're my only hope

Sing to me the song of the stars

Of Your galaxy dancing and laughing

and laughing again

When it feels like my dreams are so far

Sing to me of the plans that You have for me over again

So I lay my head back down

And I lift my hands and pray

To be only yours

I pray to be only yours

I know now you're my only hope

I give You my apathy

I'm giving You all of me

I want Your symphony

Singing in all that I am

At the top of my lungs I'm giving it back

So I lay my head back down

And I lift my hands and pray

To be only yours

I pray to be only yours

I pray to be only yours

I know now you're my only hope