Get back up again...

I just did the 30 hour famine, like I was talking about in my last point. It was both amazing and utterly exhausting. I actually think that more than any other event we do it exhausts me because I don't sleep or eat - at other events at least I get food to keep my body going.

Anyway, so I was driving home and realizing how totally exhausted I was. I pulled into my parking spot at the apartment, and suddenly started really hearing the song on the radio - it was "Only Grace" by Matthew West - right at the part where it says, "And get back up, get back up; Get back up again; Ooh get back up again"

I just had to laugh because here I am sitting in my car trying to get myself to do exactly that - get back up again. Only in my case, I was LITERALLY trying to get back up again in order to get out of the car.

But the reality is that we all have things that wear us out - and whether we literally need to get back up and keep moving, or if that is only a figurative thing - grace makes it possible. Only grace...


Only Grace, by Matthew West

There is no guilt here
There is no shame
No pointing fingers
There is no blame
What happened yesterday has disappeared
The dirt has washed away
And now its clear

There's only grace. There's only love
There's only mercy and believe me its enough
Your sins are gone
Without a trace
And there's nothing left now
There's only grace

Your starting over now
Under the sun
Your stepping forward now
A new life has begun
Your new life has begun

And there's only grace
There's only love
There's only mercy and believe me its enough
Your sins are gone
Without a trace
and there's nothing left now
There's only grace

And if you should fall again
Get back up, get back up
Reach out and take my hand
And get back up, get back up
Get back up again
Ooh get back up again

There's only grace
There's only love
There's only mercy and believe me its enough, its enough
Your sins are gone without a trace
and there's nothing left now
There's only...there's only grace
There's only mercy and believe me its enough, its enough
Your sins are gone without a trace
And there's nothing left now
There's only grace....

So get back up, get back up again
Get back up, get back up, get back up again

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