Came back to revising and refining this song tonight, first begun in '08. These things sometimes take time to find a clearer direction. Or maybe it's the writer who first has to find a clearer direction.
Your Great Design
(An Artist's Prayer)
words and music by Kay Pere
My heart is a parchment. My hand holds a quill
I dip this pen, quiverin', afraid the ink might spill, ...the ink might spill.
I long to draw you to me, Great Mystery within.
Move my hands, move my heart, guide this pen, ...guide my pen.
Though I try to sketch the future, only Your hand turns the page.
You erase the stains and smudges of my past mistakes.
So I ask, please, grant the wisdom to know where to draw the line.
And provide a clearer vision of Your Great Design.
The pattern of Your stillness rests upon my open book.
A still life of Your Spirit shines wherever I might look, ...if I just look.
Great Artist, who arranged the stars and fashioned each small flower,
My hands and heart are Yours to move in the quiet of this hour, ...this quiet hour.
Though I try to sketch the future, only Your hand turns the page.
You erase the stains and smudges of my past mistakes.
So I ask, please, grant the wisdom to know where to draw the line.
And provide a clearer vision of Your Great Design.
Only You can grant the wisdom to know where to draw the line.
Only You provide a vision of Your Great Design.
©2010 Kay Pere ~ Effusive Muse Publishing
