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from Family Portraits by Samuel G. Parkison

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I have felt the warm embrace of God
Through the arms of my brothers
Extensions of his love

I have seen mothers and fathers lament
Over loss of unborn infants
While lifting holy hands

I have heard the voice of the living God
Calling out through humble sermons
I have heard the sound of heaven
In the songs of saints in holy worship

I have felt the weight of the burden of death
I have wept and shouldered up
The heavy hearts of my friends

I have wept more with bursting tears of joy
As my friends have been surprised
By the kindness of our Lord

I have been snatched from the hot licks of hell
And I have the scars to prove it my wife knows it well
Many times I’ve come to the precipice of death
But the kindness of my Lord brought me low to repent

Knit us together in love
Seal us forever above
There is one body, one Spirit, one Lord
One Father, one adoption
A family of daughters and sons of God
Purchased by holy blood

I have seen miracles with my own two eyes
I have seen so many pass over
From death to life

I have seen a glimpse of our great homeland
With bread on my lips
And wine in my hand

Arm in arm we march onward to the promised land
Making it our business to get each other in
And though our foe death waits on the banks of our country
It has been defanged by Christ, he has stolen its sting

Knit us together in love
Seal us forever above
There is one body, one Spirit, one Lord
One Father, one adoption
A family of daughters and sons of God
Purchased by holy blood

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from Family Portraits, released April 8, 2019

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