June 17: One Foot On Land, The Other In The Sea

I've got a thousand excuses
That keep me from moving
Fear like cement blocks on my feet
And pessimism from losing

Carefully selecting each word
So as not to offend
How words like salvation and righteousness
Became wrong, must have been from some men

But it's not just them
It's also me
One finger out
And three for me to see
When I build a wall
But play the worlds game
I fail to know love
And am just the same
As everyone

What's it going to take
To drive out that fear
I may have got the knowledge
But that doesn't make anything clear

For every step forward
There's a desire to look back
If I try to run from it all
There's still so much I lack

But it's not just them
It's also me
One finger out
And three for me to see
When I build a wall
But play the worlds game
I fail to know love
And am just the same
As everyone

For freedom
You came
To set us free
Seal upon our hearts
The promises that'll make us be
Like a light for all the world to see

One day I'll stand
Before the seat
Of the one so great
The only words to speak
Will be Holy

Building a wall may isolate us from the outside world but that doesn't mean the world isn't in us. There's nothing we can do to set ourselves free.