Mary Speaks

Christian rock bands can kiss my butt.... Well ok not all of them, but I keep discovering over and over again, that they have NOTHING, not a dang THING on choral music...

Mary Speaks

Text by Madeleine L'Engle
Music by Daniel E. Gawthrop

O you who bear the pain of the whole earth, I bore you.
O you whose tears gave human tears their worth, I laughed with you.
You, who when your hem is touched, give pow'r, I nourished you.
Who turn the day to night in this dark hour, light comes from you.
O you who hold the world in your embrace, I carried you.
Whose arms encircled the world with your grace, I once held you.
O you who laughed and ate and walked the shore, I played with you.
And I, who with all others, you died for.
Now I hold you, now I hold you, now I hold you.
May I faithful to this final test,
In this last time I hold my child, my son;
His body close enfolded to my breast:
The holder held,
The bearer borne.
Mourning to joy, darkness to morn.
Open my arms, Open my arms.
Your work is done.

P.S. I cried every single time we sang this, because it focuses on something that we often forget...There's so much emphasis on Jesus as the son of God that we forget that he was also Mary's son, and that it must have been so painful for both of them to know what had to happen. I get really overwhelmed when I think about what that must have felt like, luckily though it all worked out in the end :)