Common Ground

Mud and clay
dust and dirt
soil and rock
tablets of stone
our lives in earth forever formed

from earth we were made
created from the dust
life breathed into clay statues

rocks in our hands
we are ready to stone
we cannot see love with dust in our eyes

Unseeing until Your fingers places mud upon our eyes.
You write in the dust,
and we find redemption.
Forgiveness hits home.
Grace sinks in.

 

feet of clay

we stumble and fall

our solid rock

please steady us all

You form the worlds

fashion us from the earth

write love and protection to us in tables of stone

You are our cornerstone

the building block

on this rock You build your church

living stones

altars of sacrifice

this temple will be destroyed

not one stone will be left standing upon another

bricks have fallen but we will rebuild with hand-cut stones

Jacob and his pillow of stone

night and day among the tombs we cry and cut ourselves with stones

we will be broken upon you

or crushed underneath

let us not worship graven images

help us rebuild the wall with new stones

let not Thy seed fall upon our stony ground

alas... our blindness...

eyes of clay which cannot see

mouths mute

hands and feet unmoving

breathe Your life into us again

make these stones live