Perfect Remedy

I was listening to the new David Crowder Band album, Remedy, on the way to work this morning.  And, well, I won't say it's the best album of all time, but listening to it drew me into the right lane on the Garden State Parkway.  Yes, that's right, I was compelled to drive in the slow lane because I wanted to bask in the glory of this music for as long as possible.  I even hoped that exit 131 would magically disappear from the face of this good state.

If God is going to choose a lineup of praise leaders in heaven, Mr. Crowder and his band must be on the list.

The music does what all good music should do: it made me feel infinite...infinitely loved, infinitely hopeful, infinitely humbled, infinitely unworthy, infinitely joyful, and infinitely sorrowful.

The one song that I love more than any other right now is "The Glory Of It All," the first track on the CD.  It is absolutely wonderful, the perfect remedy to all I've been suffocated by lately.  Whenever I listen to it, my throat tightens up, my palms sweat, and I want to sell all I have, leave everyone and everything behind, sprint into a deep forest, and fall prostrate before my Beloved, gripping his ankles with my trembling hands, with tears in my eyes and words of repentance, gratitude and adoration flowing off the tip of my wretched tongue...forever.

I long for each and every word in this song, more than anything else in the world right now.

I'm pining.  I don't want to be the same.

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David Crowder Band - The Glory Of It All

At the start
He was there
He was there
In the end
He'll be there
He'll be there
And after all
Our hands have wrought
He forgives

Oh, the glory of it all
Is He came here
For the rescue of us all
That we may live
For the glory of it all
Oh, the glory of it all

All is lost
Find Him there
Find Him there
After night
Dawn is there
Dawn is there
And after all
Falls apart
He repairs
He repairs

Oh, He is here
With redemption from the fall
That we may live
For the glory of it all
Oh, the glory of it all

After night
Comes a light
Dawn is here
Dawn is here
It's a new day, a new day
Oh, everything will change
Things will never be the same
We will never be the same

Oh, everything will change
Things will never be the same
We will never be same