Recycled Thoughts-Part 4

FAVORITE WORD
Have you ever had one favorite word? Mine's REDEMPTION. Pastora Me-An defined the term in our Youth Short Term Bible College. Redemption is releasing or liberation from captivity, slavery or death by payment of a price called ransom. I so like the word. The whole idea is overwhelming to me. Maybe the word is just too pretty that Jars of Clay had to write a song about it.

REDEMPTION (Jars of Clay)

We made it to a strange town going down the wrong road

Like any story retold, couldn’t find a common ending

We’re way gone, be gone, looking for our own way

We needed a distraction

You said you were redemption

We knew it as a wrong turn

We couldn’t know the things we’d gain

When we reach the other border

We look out way down past the road we come from

We’re looking at redemption

It was hidden in the landscape

Of loss and love and fire and rain

Never would have come this way

Looking for redemption

We were looking out past the road we come from

Looking at redemption hidden in the landscape

Of loss and love and fire and rain

Never would have come this way

Looking for redemption in the eyes of sorrow, eyes of rage

What a sordid histories they played

The drama of redemption…redemption