Ember: So yes. The chair. On another site it was speculated that it’s an analogy to marriage is “all or nothing” even if one gets a little water logged. I tend to not read too much into those things though.

Julie: And CDs, my oldest daughters’ favorite Christmas song is “Labor of Love” (off of the Behold the Lamb of God album) but she has named it ‘It was not a silent night’ which really confused her Sunday School teachers this last year when they asked for favorite carol requests. Quite humorous really. I know I have been given or own almost all of AP’s stuff, and each is a musical and Spirit-led endeavor. Enjoy!

Yes…*sigh*…

God bless you Ember.

Thank you for sharing what you have here, Shelley. And for this song and video – I’ve ordered some of his CDs, thanks to you….

Such a blessing, every time I hear this song my spirit flutters in harmony with the words. I finally got my husband to sit down and watch this beside me a week or so ago, even though he’s not into folk music. He knows how much I respect the songwriters’ intergrity in attempting to write songs that glimmer God’s truth, and so my husband sat and listened. And squeezed my hand firmly, and nodded when I pointed out the overlaping “Don’t Give Up On Me” lyric, and hid a welling tear by turning to look at our view of the High Bridge.

Then, perhaps an hour later we hit a small mine, but seemed to not react by selfishly pointing out our own minor wounds and instead were able to see each other through the settling rubble to begin the clean-up right away. It’s those times when we trust the Holy Spirit to really heal us, that we do maneuver with more grace and side-step our flesh. But, it doesn’t happen that often nor that smoothly.

So, thanks for admonishing all those who read your posts with this song. Many blessings!