Grateful

Grateful

by Joel Howard

For what I didn't earn

For all that's not mine

For heaven's refrain

Gently lullabying

For the sounds and the sights

I can hear heaven crying, 

"Where can you go without God!"

Jesus slows me

He says with the deepest of sighs

From full experience

He speaks from the heart

As he strokes my face

And to every question replies, 

"Where can you go without God!"

All of my days

All written down

Lord of the ages

Here I bow down 

Grateful for my lack of centrality

That all does not depend on me

Grateful for your work in me

Grateful, my God