We gather together, we assemble
like your children
at the foot of the thundering mountain.
We gather together, we assemble
friends and families, side by side,
expectant and fearful.
But love, your love casts out all our fear.
Love, your love casts out all our fear.
Love, your love casts out all our fear
of ourselves, imperfect selves.
We gather together, we assemble
like your people
in the courts of the Temple.
We gather together, we assemble,
seeing your glory
inhabit what we’ve feebly built.
But love, your love casts out all our fear.
Love, your love casts out all our fear.
Love, your love casts out all our fear
of ourselves, imperfect selves.
We gather together, we assemble
like your disciples,
in fear and in worry and doubt.
We gather together, we assemble
to discover you’re with us,
invite us to hope and believe
in your newness and life.
But love, your love casts out all our fear.
Love, your love casts out all our fear.
Love, your love casts out all our fear
of ourselves, imperfect selves.
Infuse life, burn the chaff, sharpen the iron,
flip the tables of our greed and pride.
Motivate our apathy, rejuvenate the atrophy,
alleviate the sting of death from this life,
and incite love, your love to cast out all our fear.
Love, your love casts out all our fear.
Love, your love casts out all our fear
of ourselves, imperfect selves.
credits
from We Are All Rough Drafts,
released September 24, 2014
inspired by a poem by Jonathan Zito, edited and arranged by Elise Massa
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