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Bees
03:07
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Bees everywhere
They're working for their kingdom
They grow not tired or weary
Their efforts' fruit is sweetness
Oh to be at work for your kingdom
To make life sweet for my neighbors
Oh to spread your pollen
To see your blooms and blossoms
To share with them your sweetness
They'll taste and see your goodness
Oh to be at work for your kingdom
To make life sweet for the people around me
Oh to be at work for your kingdom
To make life sweet for my neighbors
We waste so much time
Picking these fights
Assuming we're right
Use our stingers and die
So this is war
On all of my hate
This life is worth more
When we make something sweet
Oh to be at work for your kingdom
To make life sweet for the people around me
Oh to be at work for your kingdom
To make life sweet for my neighbors
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After 6 days of this making
There's nothing left for me to do
The heavens and earth complete
and both very good to me
To bless this day and to seal for them my truth
I'll...
... Rest
It's in my nature
To finish
All I've started
Completeness
Reflects my glory
Remember
And keep it holy
When he utters, it is finished
A callback to the ancient truth
He rests because he's done
and every victory is won
This completeness is our invitation to...
Sabbath rest comes from confidence
Established by all his precedents
Our God is the God he says he is
Finishing all that he begins
..
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Hands Down
04:09
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Hands down you can rest in this: God is infinite in his resources. You don't need to defend yourself or to horde your wealth. If you're feeling tired, just put your hands down.
It has to be utterly frustrating and so exhausting
The scratching and clawing, the thought that you can't live without this
You try to rest but it won't come
It never will because you don't trust
Imagine the audacity to come out from his garden
The plants all stripped bear, and your arms overflowing with harvest
You bring it in, but it's not yours
You think it is, but it's not yours
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Lord of the Sabbath
03:30
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Did you violate your Sabbath when you grazed through that field? When the man with shriveled up hand stretched it out fully healed?
You say it's not sacrifice but mercy
Something more before your eyes, if it don't point to you that's a snare
What's the posture of Sabbath
If it's not "you're enough"
That we can unclench our hands
And our jaws and rest in trust
Every 7 days remember my completeness
Every 7 years remember I provide
Every 7 times 70 you forgive
You're forgiven more cause I've given all there is to give
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This place is holy ground
A Garden that the wild surrounds
Take off your shoes now
You need to feel the way it feels when I'm around
This world had armored all my sons
Through brambles and thistles they run
How might they believe
That like this bush they see
Though I come to you
I will not consume
Their calloused hearts can't bear the thought
Of a holy, humble servant God
The water, hands their feet
This tactile liturgy
The way I've welcomed you
You must welcome too
There is hope for a refugee
The oppressed they shall soon be free
Sink your toes deep til you believe
I respond to my people's pleas
With compassion to meet their needs
Here you're safe from your enemies
Where I am is sanctuary
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Working Our Hardest
03:10
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No pedigree can grant you belief
No miracle observed creates faith
It's only the truth now
Kept from the wise but shown the child
So stop turning your plow
Faith is the gift where rest is found
Given two gifts, you've chosen neither
Wedding and funeral reviled
We say convince us and we'll believe
You say that Sodom would sooner bend a knee
That we invest in unbelief
Working our hardest not to need God for anything
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For the Weary
03:16
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I will give you rest
can be heard as a threat
for the "wise," who on learning
have hardened hearts set
But a balm to a babe
that flails discontent
This yoke - weighted blanket -
Ushers in restfulness
Come to me, lay your burdens down
All the weight you're carrying can be relieved
When we just call it unbelief
Come to me, my yoke isn't hard
I'll give you everything you need to do the words that I have written on your heart
Faith without works is dead
But don't forget who drives the cart
The cure for your weariness -
I will complete all that I start
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Little Branch
03:07
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The Lord is your supply
Your very source of life
When troubles come know you'll want for naught
The Lord is your supply
It is the Lord that prunes
Completes his work in you
It pleases him that you would bear much fruit
It is the Lord that prunes
The Lord calls you friend
And keeps his covenant
Completes your joy that you might love like him
The Lord calls you friend
Oh what a God he is
That we might rest in him
Settle in little Branch
Make your home among the vine
Grafted in bear much fruit
Produced by the vine's supply
And if you ever start to wonder how you measure up
Just know that it's the Lord who fills your cup
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Still Enough to Know
04:12
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Settle in dear to peace words can’t contain and slowly float away. Enter into a chorus in the sky, eternal lullaby. Feel your body unwinding, letting go. Still enough to know.
Loosen your grip on things you cannot hold and slip into the folds of existence woven to cradle you with care and spend forever there. Simply tending to gardens as they grow. Still enough to know.
In the stillness, in the formlessness of time, in the void carved by our rest, the spirit hovers.
Be still, be still enough to know
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kevin schlereth New Richmond, Wisconsin
post-folk nomad. doing life with everyone mostly in their homes.
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