These lyrics come from the story I told my kids at Easter. My 2 girls are trying to get a grasp on some very abstract and difficult concepts. I was amazed how helpful it was to set it in a new story. Being public school kids familiar with lugging backpacks, they definitely grasped the idea of lugging one full of stones.
Free to Swim
Your grace is an endless ocean
My sin is a backpack full of stones
Your mercy from horizon to horizon
All my stumbles and regrets already known
You say, sit right here in my little boat
Lay your heavy burden down; rest your weary bones
Let’s skip some stones
And all I’ve done, all I will do, all the secrets that I keep
Bounce across eternal water, fall to the deep
And the only thing that changes in this ocean blue
Is a sweet but imperceptible rise
You said that it is finished, I can begin again
No burden left to drown me if I jump right in
And so we swim, we swim, we swim
Now again I sit next to your endless ocean
My good deeds tied in a big bouquet
You motion from horizon to horizon
Yet you smile at me, say child, you’ve done OK
Just climb right back into my little boat
Let’s give your pretty flowers a brand new home
Let’s let them float
And all I’ve done, all I will do, all the good words I will say
Float across eternal water on the giant waves
My meager gift dissolves into your ocean blue
I can rest from all my striving sitting next to you
You said that it is finished and now the fun begins
Hands free of what I’ve gathered, I can dive back in
And so we swim, we swim, we swim
We swim, free to swim, we swim, we swim
“Wow…just wow!” lyrics
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