VOLUME 10 LYRICS
(In order of play)
1. SWEET, SWEET POWER
I feel the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit
in my soul, deep in my soul,
and by the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit,
I am made whole. I am made whole.
Glory, halleluia! Glory, halleluia!
By the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit
deep in my soul, I am made whole.
I feel the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit
in my mind, deep in my mind.
And in the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit,
my true Self shines. My true Self shines.
Glory, halleluia! Glory, halleluia!
In the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit
deep in my mind, my true Self shines.
I feel the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit
in my heart, deep in my heart.
And in the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit
I'm safe from harm. I'm safe from harm.
Glory, halleluia! Glory, halleluia!
In the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit
deep in my heart, I'm safe from harm.
I feel the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit.
It's all around, a loving sound.
And in the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit,
my home is found. Heaven is found.
Glory, halleluia! Glory, halleluia!
In the sweet, sweet power of the Spirit
heaven is found. It's all around.
2. CHILDHOOD OF MY SOUL
Last night I had a happy dream,
but oh how sweet and real it seemed,
about my home and family when I was just a child:
With shapes and colors I could taste,
beloved voices, sounds of grace,
the light in each familiar face all weaving me a life.
Refrain
I bless the child that I once was.
I bless each one who gave me love,
the earth beneath, the sky above,
the childhood of my soul.
My mother's face so dear to me
is smiling in my memories
and in my heart she ever keeps her watch upon my soul.
My father's arms so warm and strong
that held me close in days long gone
in memory still sing the song of family and home.
Refrain
I bless each day in time and space,
my friends and all the games we played.
I find them always in that place, the childhood of my soul.
My brothers, sisters all are there,
grandparents, all the ones who cared.
I feel they wait for me somewhere and call me to come home.
Refrain
There must have been some pain and tears
embedded in those childhood years,
but only loving scenes shine clear, bright memories of gold.
I think we come here many times
for grand adventures of the mind,
our innocence and love to find in childhoods of the soul.
Refrain
I'm still a child; my Source is Light.
My world is but a dream of Christ
and Heaven holds me safe inside, so I am always home.
I'm so glad you dream with me,
part of my human family,
sharing Love's Identity as children of the soul.
Refrain
3. DUALITY BLUES
Duality blues: If you win, then I lose.
The mind that once was unified has now come unglued.
I can lead a horse to water, but the horse can refuse.
I've been split down the middle. My life's a double riddle.
I've got duality blues:
A fragmented reality, limits on totality —
I've got duality blues.
I stopped being one because it seemed like no fun.
And then the ego said to me: "Boy, look what you've done!
You killed your Father, He's real mad and you'd better RUN."
Now I'm a unique person, full of guilt and hurtin'.
I've got duality blues:
I made God a fatality for sin's originality —
I've got duality blues.
Duality blues come from two points of view.
I'm the center of the universe - and then there is you.
Why don't you just accept the fact I know what is true?
I'm unappreciated, oh so sadly underrated.
I've got duality blues:
Enamored of plurality, I'm loving an invalid me —
I've got duality blues.
Most of me's nice; just a little is not.
It's only when I'm victimized I get a bit hot.
I'd be at peace if not for other people and God.
When they are attacking, my anger's never lacking.
I've got duality blues:
Enjoying all my maladies but fearing my mortality —
I've got duality blues.
The ego's my friend. It says Attack and Defend.
But Jesus keeps on nagging me: Forgive and Transcend.
Then ego says, Don't do it, or your whole world will end.
My split mind is spinning. I don't know who is winning,
and I've got duality blues:
An either-or mentality at war in unreality —
I've got duality blues.
4. SPEAKING IN TONGUES
O let me see with Your eyes
past sad appearances and lies
to the glory that resides deep within.
Let me see with my soul
beyond the brokenness to what is whole,
beyond this world to heaven home
where angels sing.
Refrain:
Teach my heart to speak in tongues.
Make it resonant with love to articulate
the Oneness that we share.
Lord, I give to You my life.
Make it a message that you write
in the language of the Christ:
That is my prayer.
Teach me to hear what You say
in the sweet silent space
of my mind held by grace in your joy.
Let vibrations of truth cleanse away and undo
all the defenses I've used to block Your Voice.
Refrain
Let the fragrance of Your peace
heal the woundedness in me
and help me honestly release all to the Light.
Let me feel Your soft caress
stroking my weary mind and bless
until my being comes to rest in the Christ.
Refrain
5. I AM HERE
I am here. I am here,
beneath your pain, behind your fear.
My dear child, within your mind, I am here.
Under your breath, under your sighs,
under your lonely midnight cries:
Precious one, open your eyes.
Know I am here.
You have made this world of anger, hate and hurt
where you dream that you deserve your guilty pain.
But you who are My Self, My treasure and My wealth,
let My love break the spell of sin and shame.
I am here. I am here.
I could not leave My child so dear.
Reach for My strength, My love, My peace,
for I am here.
Beneath your hours and your days,
I wait in gentleness and grace.
It's ever yours forevermore,
for I am here.
Created out of Light, you are perfect in My sight,
and your nightmares cannot alter what you are.
Behind your veil of dreams, Our Love is all that's real.
I'll be here for you always in your heart.
I am here. I am here,
beneath your pain, behind your fear.
My dear child, within your mind, I am here.
Beneath your breath, behind your sighs,
under your lonely midnight cries:
Precious one, open your eyes.
Know I am here.
6. PATH OF THE HEART
Refrain
On the path of the heart, love lights the way within.
On the path of the heart, there I must follow Him.
On the path of the heart, innocence born again, born again.
In the stillness of His gaze,
I am the Word He speaks,
the instrument He plays,
His music soft and sweet, so sweet.
On the mountain of my soul
I scale the rugged heights
until He lifts me on His wings
into the bliss of flight, soul flight.
In the garden of His peace I am a flower small,
trembling softly in the wind
of His tender call, His call.
Refrain
In the slow and stately dance
we dance among the stars,
our rhythm is the mystery
of love within His heart, God's heart.
In the gentle radiance and flowering of light,
I sing with silent ecstasy,
remembering the Christ. I am Christ.
On the altar of the truth,
I am a light that shines,
glowing there eternally,
at home within His Mind.
Refrain
In the stillness of His gaze,
I am the Word He speaks,
the instrument He plays,
His music soft and sweet, so sweet.
The path of the heart, so sweet.
7. HOMELESS CHILD
The angels met in heaven and thought about the place
the Son of God was dreaming apart from love and grace.
a world so full of sorrow, guilt and pain and tears,
that from everyone who lives there, this is what they hear:
Refrain:
I am a homeless child, a homeless child,
a stranger in a stranger's land and searching all the while.
Where is the light that will lead out of night,
out of the desolation of a homeless child?
The wings of their compassion shone with tender light.
How can we awaken them and heal their fearful sight?
How can we remind them they share God's holy Name,
when all of them are dreaming this single sad refrain:
Refrain:
Spirit told the angels, help them change their song.
When they chant their sad refrain then gently sing along.
Gradually they'll hear you and hear your different words
shining with God's mercy and mantling the earth. Sing:
Come home, my child. Come home, my child.
You're dreaming of a desert world that's lonely, vast and wild.
Heaven is your home. You are not alone.
Hear the angel voices call: Come home, my child..
8. GHOSTS
I had three ghosts who shadowed me,
and from them I was never free.
They haunted every waking hour,
and drained away all life and power.
My hopelessness and pain and tears
fed Sin and Guilt and Fear.
Sin was keeper of the past.
At each mistake or flaw he laughed.
My list of failings he'd recite
and jeer at my attempts to hide:
"Black sins like yours can't be undone,
and you've nowhere to run."
The ghost of Guilt defiled the day,
and clouded over joy and grace.
Unworthiness was its grim song,
an endless litany of wrongs.
"Your punishment is overdue.
There's no escape for you."
When Sin and Guilt had done their part,
then Fear came groaning in my heart
to whisper of a vengeful God Who
longed to nail me to a cross.
Fear warned of sickness, pain and death,
a curse on every breath.
At last to Spirit I did pray:
"Help me choose a different way -
the joy that greets forgiving eyes,
the peace in letting go of lies.
While ghosts still clank their guilty chains,
I'm a prisoner of shame."
"My child, the secret I'll reveal:
These ghosts who haunt you are not real.
When they appear just give a smile.
Remember you're God's holy child.
I'll stay with you and shine the Light
that puts all ghosts to flight."
And so my dreams are happy now.
There are no ghosts who glare and growl.
And if you've ghosts to exorcise,
you only need to realize
ghosts can't abide the lovely truth
of Christ in me and you.
9. ROBE OF PEACE
From journeying in nightmares grim,
I came at weary last to Him
and cried out, "Father, I have sinned.
Have mercy on me, please."
All my schemes have come to nought.
In nowhere I have nothing sought,
but pain and death is all I got.
Have mercy on me, please."
Weeping I lay at His feet,
certain He would punish me
for vows of love I did not keep.
Mercy would be denied.
But lo, I felt a tender hand.
A voice said, "Child, I understand.
You've wandered in a bitter land,
your guilty thoughts to hide.
"No child is punished for a dream.
There is no truth in what you've seen.
Eternally you're part of Me,
safe and loved and whole.
Rejoice with Me there is no death,
and heaven you have never left.
So beautiful your innocence,
the radiance of your soul."
My filthy rags were stripped away,
my body oh so gently bathed,
and then a shining gift He gave:
a robe of light and peace.
"My child, I give to you My peace.
Wear it now and let it be
a symbol that I live in thee,
from dreams you are released.
"Go again unto your earth
and teach your brothers their true worth
as you heal and bless and serve
within My robe of peace.
Tell them of My love for them.
Tell them they have never sinned.
To each of them I long to send
a shining robe of peace."
10. PULL UP THE SHADES
Pull up the shades; open the blinds.
Let the bright Son-shine flow into your mind.
You are God's child. There is nothing to hide.
Open your heart
to the love you've denied.
Refrain:
Light of God, His holy peace,
is waiting to give you release.
Unlock the door and open it wide.
See with the Spirit there's nothing inside.
Hold up to the truth all things that you fear.
Wherever the light comes,
the dark disappears.
Refrain
Love is a light, the light that you are,
radiant, gentle, at home in your heart.
Secrets of old are swept from your mind
as the light of your holiness
sparkles and shines.
Refrain
Come forth like a lily. Rise up from the ground
into the pure light of Being unbound.
Forgive all the world with the beauty you bring.
Let the sweet fragrance
of joy in you sing.
Refrain
11. THE BLESSING
Refrain
The Lord give you peace
and make His love shine on you,
enfold you in grace with His tender arms.
The Lord give you peace
as He walks through time with you,
and may His embrace keep you from arm.
The Creator of lights, the moon and the stars and the sun:
from God does every gift come
and every good thing.
Into the night, He sends us the bright Morningstar
to shine in the depths of our hearts
and teach us to sing.
Refrain
The Spirit divine walks with us showing the way,
guiding our steps through each day
on the path to the light.
His Voice in our hearts leads us to bless and forgive,
leads us to live and let live
and in His love abide.
Refrain
If you feel alone and seem to be lost and afraid,
regretting the world you have made,
the things you've done wrong,
then stop and be still and listen with hope and with faith,
trusting in mercy and grace,
and you'll hear this sweet song.
Refrain
12. ON A DAY LIKE THIS
On a day like this with the sun so bright,
when I feel the warm embrace of the light
and I smile with joy at the ones I meet
and I bless the earth beneath my feet:
On a day like this,
on a day like this,
I'm always happy on a day like this.
On a day like this with the rain pouring down
like a river of love in a river of sound
and I splash in the puddles and laugh out loud
and I run in the rain and call to the clouds:
On a day like this,
on a day like this,
I'm always happy on a day like this.
On a day like this when it's cold and grey
with the snow falling down in a lazy way
and the thoughts of God come drifting in
and they're soft and white as the peace they bring:
On a day like this,
on a day like this,
I'm always happy on a day like this.
On a day like this that I spend with you
with a vision shared of a world made new
and we laugh with joy at the truth revealed
there is only love and the mind is healed:
On a day like this,
on a day like this,
I'm always happy on a day like this.
13. FOREVER MORNING
It is forever morning in my soul.
There is no night, no fearful darkness there.
The blazing cosmos is my radiant home.
I soar on wings of light through shining air.
The great archangels gently shepherd me
to endless fields of pulsing, singing stars.
They seal into my soul their hymns of light
that will be born as songs within my heart.
I am a light within the Light of God.
I am a light within the Light of Christ.
The Holy Spirit blows the clouds away
that I may shine with love throughout the night.
The night of pain, the night of hopelessness:
it grips the mind of all humanity.
The night of fear, the night of selfishness
will yield to light of our divinity.
Beloved, look within to find your light.
it is eternal; it will never fail.
Your fears are like the clouds that hide the sun.
you are a shining one behind the veil.
Call upon Christ to pierce your prison walls.
Call upon God to claim your innocence.
The love within you is a galaxy.
Your goodness shines with starry radiance.
It is forever morning in my soul.
There is no night, no fearful darkness there.
The blazing cosmos is my radiant home.
I soar on wings of light through shining air.
Forever morning.
14. THE WELL
My heart is a well,
silent, clear.
Not full
or empty.
Not dry
or wet.
Not shallow
or deep.
I let fall a stone of sound.
Stillness remains.
My lowered bucket
crafted
of clever thoughts and questions
disappears.
I turn away, forget.
Then, on the perimeter
of wanting -
a breath of fullness.
On the far horizon
of sorrow -
a whisper of laughter.
Something sings
on the edge of hearing.
Something shines
on the edge of sight.
Whirling back
I stare at the well.
No, it is the same old thing:
silent
and innocent of light.
(What a sense of humor!)
My heart is a sweet well.
My heart is.
15. ENCOUNTER BY AN EMPTY TOMB
There is no death. The son of God is free.
I did not die, so let Me live in thee:
live in your smile, your happiness and peace;
live in your thoughts that love and bless and heal;
live in your heart, at one with all that's real.
There is no death. The son of God is free.
(readings from ACIM)
Sweet lilies shine with innocence and truth.
This fragrant gift is all I ask of you.
Lay down the thorns of guilt that crucify.
Forgiveness heals and resurrects your mind.
Here in the garden of an empty tomb,
sweet lilies shine with innocence and truth.
(readings from ACIM)
You are my voice, My eyes, My feet,
My hands through which God's Love fulfills salvation's plan.
Your songs of joy will break the spell of pain
that grips the world in dreams of sin and shame.
Teach everyone I live and live in thee.
There is no death. The Son of God is free.
(readings from ACIM)
