Lauren's Song

Every song has a back-story, but this one’s worth sharing.

Lauren’s a dear friend who’s love for life and Jesus is a true gift to many. She’s a loving wife, mother, daughter and friend, but her story also includes battling a rare form of cancer for the last several years now.

While I've never had cancer and would never dream of claiming to understand what it’s like to walk through it, this song comes from talking with Lauren about similar pains and longings in my own life and of how, at the end of the day, it always comes back to resting in the HUGE “yes" of heaven, which was not just spoken, but lived out through Jesus’s death and resurrection over 2,000 years ago. Lauren and I agree: His “yes” changed everything; His “yes” is for healing and for life, having taken on all of our sin, death and suffering. While we don’t understand why this healing hasn’t been fully realized in our world and in our lives, we cannot deny the truth of what the Lord has done for us (and to us) all those many years ago. Our “yes" to His heart and to His "yes" comes naturally as we gaze upon what He’s done, and so we can’t help but expect and believe that all of creation's full healing is not just a hope, but a guarantee.

This song is about how things really are not the same anymore because of what Jesus has done, but it’s also about what it will be like on that day when Lauren’s healing and ALL of creation's is FULLY manifested. It’s about His love and goodness overwhelming us and mountains that used to overwhelm us getting up and running away. Our lives are lived in quiet trust that these things will happen because the God who has called us is faithful and will bring to completion all that He has started in us. May His Kingdom come, His will be done here on earth as it is in heaven.

Verse 1:

Things are not the same anymore

What was a whisper has become a mighty roar

and all your fire that you shut inside my bones

has eaten the shame that I've carried for so long

Pre-chorus 1:

And now it's lifted: this fog of lies

It's not a vision, I am looking in your eyes

Chorus:

Love, you're love,

Your goodness overwhelming every part of me to prove to all

That you're just, and just the one who's worthy of all applause

so I'll stand and watch the mountains run

Verse 2:

I see you standing at my door

Your smile's kind and it makes me want you more

How strange it is that when you gave me your heart

You made me whole and you showed how good you are

Pre-chorus 2:

And it's the truth that sets me free:

that you're alive and you're living in me

Chorus:

Love, you're love,

Your goodness overwhelming every part of me to prove to all

That you're just, and just the one who's worthy of all applause

so I'll stand and watch the mountains run

(Instrumental Bridge)

Chorus:

Love, you're love,

Your goodness overwhelming every part of me to prove to all

That you're just, and just the one who's worthy of all applause

so I'll stand and watch the mountains run

Love, you're love,

Your goodness overwhelming every part of me to prove to all

That you're just, and just the one who's worthy of all applause

so I'll stand and watch the mountains run

Things are not the same anymore