We Will Soar

This new song came, like a lot of my songs do, from prayer.

I have a good friend whose brother has been struggling with cancer. I've never met the sick brother but I have great affection for his mother, his younger brother (my friend) and his sister. They're a great family. And though I don't know the brother's family, I pray often for health for him and for peace and comfort for his wife and his children.

As I was praying for him one morning a few weeks ago I asked, "What happens, Lord, if he's NOT healed?" And the answer that came to me -- from my own heart, at least -- was "He will soar anyway."

This wasn't really the answer I wanted. But I had been thinking, in my prayer, that the ends that so frighten us by their very invisibility are in all likelihood nothing like we imagine them, and far more peaceul too.

I still pray every day that Bruce will be healed, that the cancer will leave him healthy and unscathed. But in writing and pondering and awkwardly laying down this song I've convinced myself that whether he's physically healed or not some part of him -- the most important part, the eternal part -- will one day soar with his brother Reed.

I don't really believe in stylized angels with harps and wings... but I have no problem believing they will soar together in some beautiful and joy-filled way. That every moment they've shared, as I say in the song, will be woven into a glorious tapestry they can soar over and into and through, again and again.

This song is dedicated to them.

"Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their nests?” – Isaiah 60.8

Key of Bb, 4/4 about 114 time

INTRO

Bb /// Am /// Bb /// Am /// Dm /// Bb

VERSE 1

F------------------------Dm -------------------------Eb

I see two swallows in the sky and my heart wonders if I

--------------------------Dm------------------------Bb-Am

Will ever feel the joy they feel life without you seems surreal

F------------------------Dm--------------------------------Eb

As I watch them loop and roll the grief that takes such heavy toll

------------------------Dm--------------------------Bb-Am

Begins to lift and pass away and in my mind I see that day

-----Bb------C-------Dm-----Gm

When you and I will meet again…

CHORUS

--------Bb---------C------------Dm--------------C

We will soar, we will fly… oh God’s light in us will shine

-------Bb-------C---------Bb - Am

All creation will rejoice as we play

--------Bb----------C------------Dm------------------C

We will soar, we will fly… the same sun that warms our smiles

-----Bb--------C---- Bb - Am

Will melt all our pain away

(Repeat)

-------------Bb

Oh, we will soar.

VERSE 2

F-------------------Dm --------------------Eb

Every person that I meet offers their apologies

---------------------------------Dm-----------------------------Bb-Am

Prays that peace and grace make whole the empty space here in my soul

F------------------------------Dm---------------------------Eb

What do they think when I just smile When I stare up in the sky

----------------------------Dm-------------------------------Bb-Am

They may think I’ve lost my mind but I’m just looking at that time

-----Bb------C------Dm-----Gm

When you and I will soar together

(CHORUS)

BRIDGE

Bb-----C-----Dm-------C

Every moment we have shared,

Bb---------C-------Dm----C

flights of joy and dark despair

Dm----Eb – F ---- Eb

Woven in a tapestry

----Dm-------Eb ---F------Eb

and draped across eternity

-------Bb---------Am -----------Bb --------Am

Can you see… Oh I see … Can you see… Oh I see

--------Dm ---------C

Can you see… What I see

(CHORUS X2)