Katie's prayer: Dana's "We Are One Body"

On the rock of Peter, see my Church I build.
Come receive my spirit, with my gifts be filled.
For you are my body, you’re my hands and feet.
Speak my word of life to ev’ryone you meet.

This has got to be one of my favorites from back in the day. I know all the lyrics by heart, could probably even sing the whole song a cappella. I can even remember all the hand motions that go with this song! But if there's one thing I don’t remember about this song, it’s the above lyrics. Tonight, after listening to the song once or twice, I began to read the lyrics because sometimes things stick out to me better if I read it vs hearing it. I came across these lyrics as the last verse. Totally don’t remember them, they must have added them in since I was in middle school! When I first saw it, though, I didn’t believe it. I thought there must be a mistake with the lyrics, something from somewhere else was added to the end by mistake. When it neared the end of the song again, I paid close attention. Guess what, they did sing it!

Closer inspection of the lyrics, I realized they were the only lyrics of the song done from God’s point of view. And really, a lot of the time, that’s what God’s voice is for me... something I don’t really notice until I’m smacked up against the head with it (usually during my prayanewsong prayers). Something I don’t want to believe it is there until it’s obvious. And always totally surprising for me. Like my calling to be a youth minister - something I didn’t fully realize until the Spring of my senior year of college and something I would never have believed you 5 years before, maybe even one year before. I’m just sitting here praying... God, what are you trying to tell me right now? And how can I better tune myself to that voice so I’m not always jumping in at the last minute when it’s totally obvious and completely unavoidable and surprising?