Song: We Will Rise With You

There's a part in Wright's "Surprised by Hope" (July's Book of the Month) where he urges people, in response to a general paucity of theologically apt resurrection worship songs, to write new resurrection songs.  I read this and thought, "True.  But I don't really write worship songs."  Alyssa read that and said, "Eric, you should do this."  So I gave it a shot.

Here's the result.  We did end up doing this song at our church at Tenwek several times before we left.  We'll see if it gets carried on.

We Will Rise With You

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There's a hope to which we hope within this night

Anchored in the morning death was put to flight

That this groaning of creation

Waits not vainly for salvation

He will come and will put all things to right

Our Bright and Morning Star is making all things new

Banishing the powers of hell he overthrew

And his kingdom ever growing

From the smallest seeds he's sowing

No dark corner left without the light shot through

We will rise, we will rise with you

When all the heavens and the earth are made new

And finally, to be all that you made us to be

And all that you've redeemed

We will rise with you

So we hope in that which we don't always see

It's broken in, but it's yet to be made complete

But this fractured world around us

Is not always the way it was

And it's not the way that it will always be

So we work and play under this sun and rain

Knowing that our labors in him are not vain

Working in us is his power

Holding us up every hour

Til in just an instant we will all be changed...