The Summons

Ok, so I'm clearly still getting used to this app for blogger instead is just using a regular computer, because I went looking for a picture and lost my whole post.  Sigh.  Isn't that the way?  So less commentary this time which is probably for the best anyhow.

There is a song that has meant a lot to me for a long time.  Well, some think of it as a hymn as well, I suppose.  But it this song has been crucial to me in my faith journey, and in a time of directional need it was given to me again at a community Taize service I attended.

http://youtu.be/uEwBDDKcWjk

1. Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown, will you let my name be known,
Will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?

2. Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me?

3. Will you let the blinded see if I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean, and do such as this unseen,
And admit to what I mean in you and you in me?

4. Will you love the ‘you’ you hide if I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same?
Will you use the faith you’ve found to reshape the world around,
Through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me?

5. Lord, your summons echoes true when you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you and never be the same.
In your company I’ll go where your love and footsteps show.
Thus I’ll move and live and grow in you and you in me.

This is the relationship I want to have with God.  These are the expectations that I want to fulfill. I still have no idea how to get my life to do this.  This song, while some may find it so intimidating, is for me deep longing unfulfilled.  So in the meantime I keep singing and searching.  Sigh.