How can I repay Your kindness?
If not for You I would have gone
through this life stone cold sober.
If not for You I would have gone
through this life stone cold sober.
In from the desert, I requested water;
You gave me wine. I thirsted
without knowing what I was thirsty for.
You gave me wine. I thirsted
without knowing what I was thirsty for.
How wonderful to learn my life is under Your fingertips!
Drunkenness allowed for singing and dancing;
the inner fire roared and soon
I was naked among Your lovers.
I was naked among Your lovers.
Caring nothing for what people thought,
I cared only for Your wine and its fire.
Dawn came and my world shrank back into itself.
But I can never go back to sobriety. I can never go back.
O child of God, nurse His wine when He gives it.
Know that he offers something far more precious than wine.
(from The Garden of Surrender, 2004)
(from The Garden of Surrender, 2004)
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