Community

This past weekend on a getaway to the snowy Washington mountains with a group of dear friends, we offered each other a beautiful time of personal sharing; Show and Tell, if you will.  Saturday night was our sharing time and it was two and a half hours dedicated to knowing 15 other people in a deeper way through a story, song, poem, or video they shared.  I love that.  We didn't choose the order in which we shared, it was somewhat assigned; magically enough, the last one to go shared this wonderfully inviting song by Over the Rhine.  It's been bouncing along in my brain ever since and unfortunately I can't provide the audio (firstly because blogspot doesn't give me that option and secondly because the album isn't out yet), but I wanted to at least let you taste the lyrics.  They are simple, but profoundly warm, entirely true, and deliciously rich.


All my favorite people are broken
Believe me, my heart should know
Some prayers are better left unspoken
I just want to hold you and let the rest go


All my friends are part saint and part sinner
We lean on each other, try to rise above
We are not afraid to admit we are all still beginners
We are all late bloomers when it comes to love


All my favorite people are broken
Believe me, my heart should know
Awful believers, skeptical dreamers, step forward
You can stay right here, you don't have to go


Is each wound you've received just a burdensome gift
It gets so hard to left yourself up off the ground
But the poet says we must praise a mutilated world
We're all working the graveyard shift
You might as well sing along

All my favorite people are broken

Believe me, my heart should know

As for your tender heart, this world's going to rip it wide open,

It ain't gonna be pretty, but you're not alone

All my favorite people are broken

Believe me, my heart should know

Awful believers, skeptical dreamers, step forward

You can stay right here, you don't have to go