- I once was lost
- I was broken
- Hurting
- Searching
- Seeking
- Thirsty
- But now I’m found
- I’m whole
- I’m healed
- I’m growing
- Fed by a living well
- Have you heard this before?
- Does it sound memorized
- A rehearsed lie?
- Let me tell you the truth
- The truth that springs
- From the deepest part of me
- This Is My Story
- Born as the third
- The third of three
- They call me Baby Emily
- They loved me
- They love me
- Mother Father
- Brother Sister
- Perfect little family
- Home was our house
- And home was our church
- Twice on Sunday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Church was my life
- But
- Church wasn’t Christ
- Has any one ever told you?
- I grew up in the Church
- But not in Christ
- A building
- And not the body
- A place and not Grace
- Church is Ecclesia
- More than just rooms
- Baskets and pews
- But grace is not something I knew
- Sunday school was to serve
- And then youth group when I grew
- But I was too much for them
- A freshman in high school
- Too much for them to deal
- Made too much noise
- Searched too hard
- I was in search of truth
- I asked too many questions
- Let’s kick the problem out
- Because that’s the solution
- So
- Praise was just singing
- Preaching meant napping and knitting
- But beyond the Church
- Christ was still living
- Christ was king
- At six I’d heard enough
- I prayed the sinner’s prayer
- At that moment
- I was found forever
- Found yet so lost
- I prayed a prayer blindly
- I was still a girl
- Hurting
- Broken
- angry
- dying
- I saw death
- I’m now not one of three
- But one of two
- Dead and gone
- My brother in heaven
- I felt rejected
- I hated God
- Why couldn’t he get me out of these messes
- I prayed the sinner’s prayer
- Wasn’t I better forever
- My soul was sick
- Sick and broken
- Read your bible more
- Pray every day
- Complain less
- Be happy
- Sing praises
- Worship
- Be obedient
- Do good things
- Follow all the rules
- Be good girls
- So I fought to be good
- I knew my scriptures
- Knew my verses
- Yet I still felt rejected
- I couldn’t be perfect
- And it wasn’t worth it
- I wasn’t worth it
- I knew the truth
- Yet I wasn’t free
- I said means things
- I was the bully and the bullied
- High school
- Temporary prison for this girl
- Spat on
- Kicked
- Teased
- What a shocker
- I was the girl
- Thrown into the locker
- I was too hurt to be nice
- Too weak to fight
- I was searching
- Longing
- Someone teach me
- About this God you see
- About this joy you seek
- One after another
- No one saw me
- Let the problem be
- So I grew
- Angry and bitter
- Lost a loner
- My body followed
- This train of pain
- A ticking time bomb
- Serious condition
- Unknown diagnosis
- So the doctor’s say
- We’ll just help the pain
- 2 more days to see
- then you’ll lose vision completely
- scoliosis
- neurological disease
- spinal cyst
- GOD WHAT IS THIS
- Death seemed nice
- I was ready to give up the fight
- Then one day
- Someone said grace
- Someone said mercy
- It’s
- Getting what we don’t deserve
- Not getting what we do
- It was Grace alone that healed me
- Opened my eyes to see
- Healed my brain
- Took away my pain
- Therefore just as sin came into the world
- Through just one man
- Death through sin
- Spread to all mankind
- Sin was here before me
- Brokenness
- It didn’t come from me
- It was born in me
- What I didn’t know
- Was that the grace they talk about
- This grace was free
- Not like sin and brokenness
- It was one man’s sin that broke us all
- The fall
- One’s man’s action
- Had death reign
- One man’s trespass
- And sin remained
- But grace is much more
- Grace is stronger
- One man’s life
- On one Cross
- One last breath
- One last death
- So by one man’s obedience
- The many will be made righteous
- Sin was great
- But grace is greater
- GRACE
- G-R-A-C-E
- A five letter word
- So complex
- Yes so simple to me
- It was new to me
- I learned that there was a law
- A law I couldn’t keep
- Rules I couldn’t hold
- I knew why I was broken
- And I knew I couldn’t fix it.
- Grace brought me peace
- And when grace became the root
- In my life
- Peace became the fruit
- No longer was I separated
- From my father who created
- But I was held in the arms
- Of the one who made the stars
- Upon my new roots
- Came new thirst
- New weeds to kill
- A new heart to fill
- But His water is good
- He gave a paraclete
- A comforter who never leaves
- A scripture feeding my every need
- Combating those very weeds
- Don’t get me wrong grace isn’t easy
- But the law is impossible
- So my Jesus said
- Walk with me
- Live in joy love freely
- And the judge
- threw down the gavel
- On one lonely Hill
- TETELESTAI
- He said it is finished
