Forgiveness.

These two songs struck me this week, the first a few days ago, and the second just this morning as I finished making breakfast. Interpret them as you will, but for my heart, they scream the grace of God at me.

"Good God, if your song leaves our lips,
If your work leaves our hands,
Then we will be wonderers and vagabonds.
They will stare and see how empty we are.
How the freedom we had turned us up as dead men.

Let us be cold, make us weak
Let us, because we all have ears
Let us, because we all have eyes, good God

How they knew that this would happen,
We're so run down.
Good God! Can you still get us home...
How can we still get home?

I'm not dreaming.
We're forgetting our forgiveness." Underoath
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"All the time you were burning my letters, you were only acting the part.
You think without me, you'll get on much better, but you don't even know your own heart.

Come home, darling, come home quickly.
Come home, darling, all is forgiven, so come home quickly.

I treated you as if you were a princess; you treated me like a cop.
I gave you boundaries to save you from certain death, dangling from the end of your rope.

Come home, darling, come home quickly.
Come home, darling, all is forgiven, so come home quickly.

But you're still playing for a love you'll never find, outside of these arms of mine.

The whole town is one step behind you, with the hangman on call.
They've got the judge and you're convicted without a plea.
Darling,
They will listen to me." Pedro the Lion
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God has been melting my face off with his forgiveness today. I hope this reminds you, even a glimpse, of his grace.