Abide - Carrie Newcomer

I will bring a cup of water

Here’s the best that I can offer

In the dusk of coming night

There is evidence of light

With the pattering of rain

Let us bow as if in grace

Consider all the ways we heal

And how a heart

Can break

Oh abide with me

Where it’s breathless and it’s empty

Yes, abide with me

And we’ll pass the evening gently

Stay awake with me

And we’ll listen more intently

To something wordless and remaining

Sure and ever changing

In the quietness of now

Let us ponder the unknown

What is hidden and what’s whole

And finally learn to travel

At the speed of our own souls

There is a living water

A spirit cutting through

Always changing, always making

All things new

Oh, abide with me

Where it’s breathless and it’s empty

Yes, abide with me

And we’ll pass the evening gently

Stay awake with me

And we’ll listen more intently

To something wordless and remaining

Sure and ever changing

In the quietness of now

There are things I cannot prove

And still somehow I know

It’s like a message in a bottle

That some unseen hand has thrown

You don’t have to be afraid

You don’t have to walk alone

I don’t know but I suspect

That it will feel

Like home

Oh, abide with me

Where it’s breathless and it’s empty

Yes, abide with me

And we’ll pass the evening gently

Stay awake with me

And we’ll listen more intently

To something wordless and remaining

Sure and ever changing

In the quietness of now