Praying for Redemption

A Christian band named Waterdeep has released a CD entitled, Everyone's Beautiful. The title track of that album moves me every time I hear it - the lyrics are so raw and capture exactly how I feel when I think about the stupid stuff I have done in the past and simply pray that God will somehow use my foibles, my weaknesses, and even my sin to bring glory to Himself in the end. My favorite line is, "all of us crawling on hands and knees in need of You," ...

... finally, that's really all that any of us do.



Everyone's Beautiful

I used to draw all the time back when I was in high school
Thick yellow pencils with soft lead that smeared real easy
Page after page I was longing, but senior year
I met a girl and she made me feel better here
But a girl was a girl was a girl
And she was beautiful, everyone's beautiful
I smeared the picture of her and then I walked away

I remember in junior high, half sick from fear on the hillside
Eddie wore braces and talked like he couldn't be beaten
Shawn had said, "Friday, out back after school"
Eddie was stumbling, blood mixed with drool
But a fight is a fight is a fight
Still they were beautiful, everyone's beautiful
All of us crawling on hands and knees in need of You

I want to lift up my memory of down in the desert and set it on fire
Watch it burn, watch it burn up -- how it changes --
And hope that the smoke of the sins of my youth
Will sail to the base of the throne of the King,
'Cause a prayer is a prayer is a prayer
Then they were beautiful, everyone's beautiful
All of us crawling on hands and needs in need of You...

...and they were beautiful, all of us beautiful,
Let them all find their redemption down deep in Your eyes...