When the Saints

Every so often Itunes gives away a free song that is actually good. I recently came across this one and since I downloaded it I can't get enough of it. It's the kind of song that when you listen to it it wells up inside of you and you want to cry for joy! I wish I had the blogger skills to post the song on my blog so you could hear it as the words go so well with the music. I highly recommend purchasing it and playing it over and over!

When The Saints by Sara Groves

Lord i have a heavy burden of all i've seen and know

it's more than i can handle

but your word is burning like a fire shut up in my bones

and i can’t let it go

and when i'm weary and overwrought

with so many battles left unfought

i think of paul and silas in the prison yard

i hear their song of freedom rising to the stars
and when the Saints go marching in

i want to be one of them

lord it's all that i can't carry and cannot leave behind

it all can overwhelm me

but when i think of all who've gone before and lived a faithful life

their courage compels me

and when i'm weary and overwrought

with so many battles left unfought

i think of paul and silas in the prison yard

i hear their song of freedom rising to the stars

i see the shepherd moses in the pharaohs court

i hear his call for freedom for the people of the Lord
and when the Saints go marching in
i want to be one of them

i see the long quiet walk along the underground railroad

i see the slave awakening to the value of her soul

i see the young missionary and the angry spear

i see his family returning with no trace of fear

i see the long hard shadows of calcutta nights

i see the sister standing by the dying man’s side

i see the young girl huddled on the brothel floor

i see the man with a passion come kicking down that door
i see the man of sorrow and his long troubled road

i see the world on his shoulders and my easy load

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