Tears of Glory

Tears of Glory

God of the closing and opening doors

May I disdain any other voice

God of the roadblocks and paths made straight

God of inclinations and choice

May your light flash down from heaven

May your radience upon us shine

May your voice speak loud and often

May we seek and hear and find

Baptized in the tears of your glory

We lift our eyes to You

Higher than the heavens are your ways

To you all majesty is due.

We are bound by chains of sin

Behind the bars of guilt and shame

Tears of glory, tears of glory

Of our hope and of a warning

Tears of glory tell the story

Dancing comes after the mourning

Oh I would weep and be weak

Rather than in myself be strong

Where I did not sow I would reap

I would cry out as I seek

To find solace where I belong

As we view you through the tears

You wipe them all away

And give new eyes with which to see

The unseen brighter day.

We are bound by chains of sin

Behind the bars of guilt and shame

Tears of glory, tears of glory

Of our hope and of a warning

Tears of glory tell the story

Dancing comes after the mourning

Anthony Foster

November 2013