Sometimes it feels like everything in my life is interconnected, and I am following one theme as it weaves its way in and out of the crannies and corners of my life. This is what this song is. This is me trying to follow the theme of God’s love through my youth ministry and hermeneutics classes, through the restoration of a broken relationship, through a long and powerful email from a friend, a beautiful sermon by my pastor, Romans 8, and most of all, long conversations with my best friends. Particularly through Katie Jo, who lay on Carter lawn with me one afternoon and listened to my story and told me, with her fingers intricately interlaced together, that faith and love cannot be separated from each other because they are ontologically inextricable.
Inextricable
Tell the whole story
Hold nothing back
Lies must be silenced
They speak into lack
And I lack so much
If I wash my hands
Serve you at your table
Let go of my plans
I want you to thank me
I want you to need me
Life and death were in that room
Words hold that power
Looking into that cold tomb
Moments seemed like hours
And I ached once more to hold you
But we were not our own
I learn to rejoice with you
Even if still alone
I want to be humble
But I find it so humbling
I think this year I’m still learning
All that my God is teaching
And I watch you entwine your hands cuz
Faith and love are
Ontologically
Inextricable
He spoke her language
Like you spoke mine
Named her just as you
Call me your child
Tell the whole story
Hold nothing back
I tried not to listen
But you followed my tracks
And this is what grace means
The blessing is you
I think this year I’m still learning
All that my God is teaching
And I touch you, entwine our hands cuz
Faith and love are
Ontologically
Inextricable
I can’t be the surpriser
But I still try to fight
Strategy to defeat the enemy
Do the little things right
I want this time to be
Good for my soul
This is your grace in me
When I am faithful
An existential
Apprehension; it changed me
I think this year I’m still learning
All that my God is teaching
And I touch you, entwine our hands cuz
Faith and love are
Ontologically
Inextricable
