Oh Gracious Light - Sandra McCracken

Small like the stripe of her fingerprints

On the pillow her hand while she’s sleeping

Wide like the panoramic stroke of midnight

Tennessee sky

Grace like the expectation of embers

Left after the fire of epiphany

Fear it grows cold in this hour

We will choose who we are on the other side

Oh, gracious light.

Oh, gracious light

I have been walking, walking so long, in darkness

Live leaning in when the pain is fierce

Oh, the bow, it will break at His coming

Stand who can understand the design

The refining holy fire

Oh, gracious light.

Oh, gracious light

I have been walking, walking so long, in darkness

Feel the sun, feel the heat, on your face

Winter is, calling you out of the cave

I want to see your face

Home it is gone like a vapor, a ghost

Hear the echo from corner to corner

Found I am lost in the finding, the keeping

The losing, the slow rebirth

Oh, gracious light.

Oh, gracious light

Pure brightness of the ever-living father in heaven

Oh, gracious light.

Oh, gracious light

I have been walking, walking so long

I have been walking, walking so long

I have been walking, walking so long in darkness