Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death. Psalm 68:19-2
I made a phone call today and it rang and rang and then they answered - they answered. And now all I can do is whisper the words above.
I was standing this morning in the Narthex at Truro catching up with friends when I learned that my dearest of friends, whom I've known since my twenties, were in what was nearly a horrific crash on the interstate freeway not long after they headed out with their children and their packed SUV and trailer to make a new home in Virginia. As they drove on the open highway, suddenly, their car and trailer jack-knifed and flipped over, trapping the entire family inside.
But the car and the trailer - loaded up to capacity for their long journey - did not explode. There was no fire. The entire family crawled out of the car and escaped.
And they did escape - all of them were saved. And except for a few bumps and scratches and a couple of stitches for the driver, they walked away from the crash.
When I talked to them this afternoon, I kept blinking back the tears of gratitude - and they gave me the verse above. Talking with them, grateful, so grateful, reminded me once again that no matter what happens - the church is the people, not the buildings. It's the people - whether we are delivered to remain in our church homes or become sojourners through the land - it will still be the people. And God is indeed Abba, our Father.
As I listened over the phone to what happened - and most especially, what didn't happen - they told me they will not give up. They are leaving their diocese and they are coming to CANA. They retrieved their possessions that survived the crash and, with a borrowed truck, they will continue on their journey, placing their trust in a God who delivered them. I am so grateful that this family, a family that has weathered so much all ready, will continue this new journey in faith. I am awed by their witness that even now, at this hour, they will not, even in the face of near death, they will not, by the grace of God, give up.
As many of us who hang about t the cafe know, Harry Potter fans are most welcome. After the final book came out last year, we set up Shell Cottage where we post much of our PotterWatch news and essays. Earlier this week we had a scare when the HP Lexicondisappeared, but thanks to a post from Steve of the Lexicon at Shell Cottage, it has been found. We continue to watch for a verdict on the fate of the Lexicon in print, as well as the fate of fansites on the internet. Stay tuned.
We've been a bit (okay, quite!) piqued of late since the sixth film has been postponed from an opening date in two months to an opening date in July 2009. We're trying to get over it - and as though recognizing the disappointment of so many, Warner Brothers has kept to its original schedule of test screenings - which of course are then blasted all over the internet.
One of those early test screenings was held last night in Chicago and for those of you who are fans and are curious - and can't wait until next summer - you can find the links to some of those test screening reports over at Shell Cottage. They are filled with what are called "spoilers" (the reports tell us all about the early cut of the film - including which scenes are in and which are out) but in doing so, allow the filmmakers to hear reactions from both novice audience members as well as HP experts. The reports we've found so far are from the HP experts.
So check it out - and when you're done there, take a trip over to Travis Prinzi's excellent establishment, The Hogs Head, where you'll find great essays and reviews and a terrific podcast called, well - the Hog's Head Pubcast. There are some updates and new drapes and looks like some new tables to replace the ones we broke after Warner Brothers announced the sixth film's postponement. But do stop by and say hi and watch out for Aberforth.
BB NOTE: The short answer, as the Anglican Communion Institute (ACI) has learned through their investigation of The Episcopal Church's constitution and canons, is that the answer is no.
This has become extremely evident in the litigation now underway in Virginia. As we've written before, there is no way that the Church in Virginia would have joined together with other dioceses to form the type of organization that the current occupants of 815 have been promoting.
It is as it was explained by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Bishop of Central Florida, John Howe. Canterbury has a direct relationship with diocesan bishops.But I would guard us all that this position seemed to be taking a political shift - a major political shift - at Lambeth. At Lambeth it was confirmed that the proposed Covenant would be shopped around to the all the provinces, not dioceses - indicating a provincial recognition of power over the diocesan bishop. Also, with the strengthening of the Primates Council's authority (though as we see over and over again, there is no way to enforce anything that this group - or any group - says or does, except by the will of the people).With this in mind, TEC has turned to litigation and the courts to enforce what cannot be enforced within its own political walls (and that is costing them millions and millions - an accounting of which we have not seen - take note of that). This is not going well of late because the internal documents of the organization do not support the type of organization being promoted by the current inhabitants of 815. But that is the course they are taking and it behooves anyone who thinks that parlaying with this inner-circle of litigation-minded purple shirts and their lawyers will get them anywhere beyond total capitulation or a lawsuit with their own name on it.
I also appreciate the position that ACI (and perhaps those orthodox bishops still vowing to remain in TEC who do not privately plan to go to Rome once they retire) when they write in their intro into the document, "What is legally permitted may not on all occasions be theologically or morally justifiable. Our caution, therefore, is that the paper may provide justifiable constitutional license for a course of action that we believe in some instances to be arguably “legal” but nonetheless deleterious to both Gospel truth and Christian unity." ACI is worried.
But I would argue that the polity of the Episcopal Church (for better or worse - but we are Americans, after all) is based on the idea - founded in the experience of the American experiment - that hierarchical and centralized churches (Protestant and Catholic) must be held accountable to the possibility of Reformation. Our founders wrote that principle right into the Declaration of Independence when they wrote, "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."This is at the heart of the American experiment. If it's a sin, well, that's a major oops.
What we understood and understand today is that a corporate or political organization is NOT THE SAME AS THE CHURCH. The Episcopal Church, The Church of England, yes, even The Church of Rome - they are all all corporate organizations. They are not The Church Triumphant - the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. The Church is a mystery. Different corporation expressions of The Bride of Christ can come very close - many, many closer than others - but we should not confuse our human endeavors to create corporate organizations with being the mystical Body of Christ.
I know this is not the view held by all - I don't have close friends going to Rome for nothing - but it is a view held by many. And certainly it is no sin to separate from a corporate organization that has tragically lost its theological mission to accommodate the spirit of the age.
For those who question the morality of separation, it might not be a bad time to review the Declaration of Independence and decides once and for all whether our own founders made one grave philosophical and moral mistake with the late King of England. We can imagine where some today may have landed during that conflict two centuries ago. The boats going back to England after Cornwall surrendered at Yorktown were filled to the brim with loyalists and Canada wasn't founded as a summer-time resort.
It's now all up at the ACI website. You can read the paper here and ACI's rather anxious commentary here.
We're out in the suburbs. I'm a bit worried about my neighbors downstairs. The water level is rising.
This is a little later. You can see why I'm concerned about my neighbors - earlier there was someone out there in a yellow rain slicker digging trenches. The rain is still pouring down, as the Tropical Storm Hanna passes through the Washington metropolitan area.
UPDATE: Here's a post-storm video of what I found after taking a walk when the storm subsided:
We're not sure if there will be those who will show up in Anaheim next year just looking for free software. What we can be sure of is that Bill Gates will not be there.
From the Guardian we have this temper tantrum disguised as an editorial from the TEC Bishop of Washington, John Chane.
Guess the talking-points from 815 didn't work so well in the Lambeth Indaba groups after all?
Riazat Butt of the Guardian says that Bishop Chane article "is more critical than the one issued by primates from the breakaway conservative movement the Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon)."
Bishop Chane thinks that TEC has been left out in the cold so that Rowan Williams could "pander" to the 230 bishops who did not attend Lambeth. Where is Chane's binky? "There was far too much recognition of those who chose not to participate in this Lambeth conference and far too little recognition of those bishops who chose to come," Bishop Chane wrote. He made it clear that he will not be abiding by the moratorium prohibiting the blessing/marriages of same sex couples or the ordinations/consecrations of non-celibate homosexuals, saying, "for the American and Canadian churches, that clearly means sacrificing once again the full participation of gay and lesbian persons in the life of our church. I for one will not ask for any more sacrifices to be made by persons in our church who have been made outcasts because of their sexual orientation."
"The Anglican Communion must face into the hard truth that when we scapegoat and victimize one group of people in the church, all of us become victims of our own prejudice and sinfulness." Bishop Chane wrote, as though forgetting that the entire crisis began when the Episcopal Church ignored the pleas from the rest of the Anglican Communion - including the Archbishop of Canterbury - and went ahead with blessing same sex unions and consecrating Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire.
It appears that Bishop Chane thinks that actions do not have consequences. preferring to turn the tables and call the Episcopal Church the victims - no wonder the Guardian thinks his remarks are far more critical than those coming from the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans FCA) or GAFCON.
We heard over and over again from the liberal Episcopal bishops that those who stayed home from Lambeth were no longer in the Anglican Communion, but that is not the view of the Archbishop of Canterbury who is writing to all the bishops who did not attend the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury. He made it a point at his final press conference that he would be reaching out to all the bishops who did not attend and he has invited all the primates to gather - including the FCA primates - first thing in the new year. This does not make Bishop Chane happy.
And so to make that point very clear - he has vowed to break the moratorium. We have heard similar vows from the Bishop of California as well.
The thing is - when we last saw the Bishop of Los Angeles, Jon Bruno, he was positively buoyant as he wandered about the streets of Canterbury with his wife on the Monday after Lambeth ended. He did not look at all upset - in fact he looked quite pleased as he posed for photographs and shook hands with patrons along the way.
And now we have Bishop Chane bitterly complaining about scapegoats and victims - not exactly in a buoyant place himself, is he?
You can read the Bishop Chane's editorial, Scapegoats of the Anglican Communion, in the Guardian here. It is simply beyond the pale that anyone would have the audacity to say that Episcopal Church actions are causing them to be "scapegoated." TEC was warned by the instruments of the Communion that there would be consequences and now we have bishops like John Chane who believe they are beyond consequences.
Is it no wonder, then, that Rowan Williams reaches out to those who would still call him friend?
LATER: This popped up on the iPod while walking to lunch today. Take it away, Bob.
A MONTH after the Lambeth Conference, the 230 or so absent Anglican bishops have not yet been contacted in order to “build bridges” with them. In the mean time, their leaders have stated that they have heard nothing from Lambeth to give them pause as they seek to form a new North American province.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and Canon Kenneth Kearon, the secretary general of the Anglican Communion, committed themselves at the Lambeth Conference to ensuring that the absent bishops were kept fully informed of what had taken place, and of the process expected to lead to the Anglican Covenant.
All the Primates have been sent copies of Dr Williams’s post-Conference reflections; but on Wednes day the promised “bridge-building” letters had still not been sent out. “I know it is being worked on in the office, and it is in process. But the letters have not physically gone out to everyone absent yet,” a source in the Anglican Communion Office said.
The press officer, Canon Jim Rosenthal, confirmed later in the day that they would be sent out at the end of the week.
Dr Williams and Canon Kearon have both been on leave.
The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, who is the newly appointed secretary of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), told The Guardian last week: “At Lambeth there was talk of building bridges, but as far as I know there has been no approach made.”
They warned that a breach of the three Windsor Process moratoriums supported widely at the Lambeth Conference — no episcopal ordina-tions of partnered homosexual people, no blessing of same-sex unions, and no cross-border incur-sions by bishops — would lead to the Communion’s “fracture”.
Nevertheless, despite their warnings, their purpose in establishing the Council was “to authenticate and recognise confessing Anglican jurisdictions”, they said. “It is expected that priority will be given to the possible formation of a province in North America for the Common Cause Partnership.”
Their other purpose was to “en cour age all Anglicans to promote the gospel and defend the faith”.
“Individuals, churches, dioceses, provinces, and parachurch organisa-tions” that assented to the Jerusalem Declaration (which came out of the GAFCON meeting held there this summer) should sign on as mem bers, they said. They provide a facility on their website for that to happen.
Their main contention was that the Lambeth Conference had “merely repeated” what had already been said, “which has proved to change noth ing”. The Windsor Process had been strongly commended by “esteemed colleagues from the Global South”; so they were “reluctant” to say it would not work: “But there is nothing new here such as to make us hesitate from the course we are taking.”
Here's the official logo for the 2009 General Convention outside Disneyland next summer. And here's how the official press release at Episcopal Life explains the logo to us:
Throughout the selection and design process, the judges were seeking a visual representation of the Trinity for the logo and that God the Father, Earth-Maker, is represented by the globe or circle, God the Son, Pain-Bearer, is represented as a cross etched onto the axes of the globe, and God the Spirit, Life-Giver, is carried in the colors and the movement of the figures around the center.
Earth-Maker, Pain-Bearer, and Life-Giver. Oookay! Can't have all that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit stuff hanging about the halls of Anaheim, now can we? Looks like Don McLean was right after all.
UPDATE: This is "Circle of Life" paganism? Think not? Think again. The image at the right is a symbol of Lakota paganism - fascinating, but not exactly the imagery we're looking for in a historic and global Christian denomination, is it? And certainly for a gathering of the Episcopal Church official government. Hmmm ... It's amazing, isn't it, how this particular paganistic art strikingly resembles the Official Episcopal Church General Convention logo? You can read more about this circle of life image here. Uncanny, isn't it?
If you don't want to go West, then go East instead. There's always the Wheel of Life, like this.
Ah, but wait, there's more!
The theme for the Anaheim extravaganza is the reimagined "I in you and you in me" - which of course - IS NOT FROM THE SCRIPTURES. Nope. The "press release" says it's from the Gospel of John - but that is false. Oh, way false, my friends.
Here's what the scripture actually says:
20"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. John 17:20-23
It's not "I in you and you in me," it's "I in them and you in me." And it's Jesus speaking to His Father (oops, there's that Father-stuff again, nix that). Just who is in charge of the Episcopal Church any way? This guy? This is a key doctrinal point - Jesus is the Mediator, we do not approach God on our own merit (there's no "I in you and you in me" - just who is "I" and who is "me" anyway - ambivalent isn't it? Right-o!), but only through His Son, Jesus Christ - through His Cross. "I am the resurrection and the life," says Jesus in John 14;6. "No one comes to the Father but through me."
No, it is not "I in you and you in me," but "I in them and you in me." And that's Jesus speaking to His Father. We're listening to his High Priestly Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane that night He went to the cross. He's not just some esoteric "pain-bearer" - He's the Father's only begotten Son. The phrase is lifted right out of John 17. It also hints at John 15, "Abide in me and I in you," but of course, it's missing the key word: Abide.No small thing, that word. It's not "I in you and you in me" (what the next line - "free to be you and me?") - it's "Abide in me and I in you." The difference in the meaning of the words is the difference between being a Unitarian and a Trinitarian - and oh, so much more, between leaving the orthodoxy train stop, casually waving to unitarian universalism while passing right through to, as Os Guinness has written - post-Christian paganism. This is a major theological and philosophical and political shift.
"I in you and you in me" - free to be you and me?
Perhaps they should make this the official GC Theme Song:
But we'll be singing this instead:
I met a girl who sang the blues And I asked her for some happy news, But she just smiled and turned away. I went down to the sacred store Where I’d heard the music years before, But the man there said the music wouldn’t play. And in the streets: the children screamed, The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed. But not a word was spoken; The church bells all were broken. And the three men I admire most: The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train for the coast The day the music died.
Think we just may go to Disneyland next year instead.
At least there they admit they have a Goofy.
UPDATE: Let us review the "second part" of TEC's new-and-improved "trinity." Pain bearer? Hardly. Jesus is the sin-bearer, He bore the sin of the world. He bore my sin. He bore our sin. He felt our pain, oh yes, but he bore our iniquity.
The Lord laid on His Son the iniquity of us all.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:6
SATURDAY UPDATE: Matt Kennedy has written a very good explanation of the Trinity, focusing especially on the Son. As a former unitarian Christian Scientist who did not know that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, it is perhaps the single-most important discovery of my life. What caused me to get out of my head (which is where Christian Science resides) was to see the lives radically - and I mean radically - transformed before my very eyes by those who followed Jesus as their Messiah and Lord. Matt puts together a succinct and reasoned explanation on the nature of Jesus as the Son of God, countering efforts that diminish His position in the Godhead. But the letter he is responding to is also very well written and it's that kind of "conversation" that can be quite exciting. Thanks for posting the letter and your response, Matt!
Tonight I'm in the Undercroft at Truro where we're hearing reports from individuals who went on short-term mission this summer.
Right now we're hearing from Tory Baucum who is reporting on his mission trip to Israel and Uganda. In particular he is talking aboutstaying up one night with Anglican missionaries sharing the Gospel with their Muslim friends and through that experience he was introduced to the Episcopal Church in the United States. Jerusalem expanded his horizons, a very different culture - and spent the next ten years of his life expanding that horizon. And now he had returned. His vision is that every youth at Truro will go to Israel. Faith should be tested while they are with us, before they leave when we can walk with them to be prepared for the world that they are about to inherit.
1. Jewish Past: Understand Jewish roots - a new era in Christianity. For most of Christian history, we've had a very hard relationship with Jewish people. But now there is a new relationship with Jewish people and in Israel.
2. Muslim Future: Muslim faith is growing in the world and its growing in the United States. We need to prepare our kids to deal with Islam. Secularism is a spent-force, it's dying.
Uganda: Tory learned that Truro has had a thirty-plus year relationship beginning with Bishop Festo. Bishop William was his assistant who oversaw the diocese during the exile during Idi Amin years and then came here to study. And then Bishop George followed and that's who Tory and his team stayed with. Three bishops have passed the torch and we've received their ministry here.
East Africa Revival was in response to the laxity of the Church. They had been riding on the capital of the missionaries, but then began to pray for revival. The other thing was Idi Amin, the persecution fortified their souls. After that, this deal in the Communion is not that big a deal because they've been through worse.
When the Communion was splitting - with TEC on one side and Uganda on an other where will Truro go? Where are the relationships? This understanding helped him understand Truro better. We have a huge strain of African Christianity going through us.
Honoring all three streams in Christianity - a strong catholic strain, doing the stuff; clearly evangelical, having a personal relationship with Christ and not shy away from it; and charismatic - we honor that part of our life. Anglicanism holds all three together. None should be an embarrassment.
TEAM REPORTS
Mission Trip to Israel: We're now hearing the presentation about the team that went to Israel and worked in a library scanning historic documents that will be available online. We're hearing more about the library and the amazing work they are doing - including preservation of written tablets.
In addition they visited an Anglican school in Jerusalem which includes students of all nationalities. They also visited a Messianic Jewish grade school as well that is on the grounds of the Anglican school. In addition they visited other Christian ministries around the country.
Mission Trip to Uganda: Now we're hearing from the team that went to Uganda this summer. They went July 16-30. They went to the Diocese of Kigezi and Uganda Christianity University. We received greetings from Bishop George. We're family.
We are seeing slides from the mission trip - and Truro is sponsoring students to go to Bishop Barham University College and more need support who very much want to go but do not have the financial resources to attend.
They also visited Rugarama Hospital - the director is from Uganda and was educated in the United States and then returned to minister to his people. With one other hospital it serves 500,000 people. They have strong needs for doctors and equipment.
They visited Compassion International children - the neediest of the needy and Compassion International ministers to them.
They also worked with Five Talents: They visited one of the projects sponsored by Five Talents.
And they visited Uganda Christianity University and met with the Truro's mission associates. They attended worship in Nkoyoyo Hall where they heard from the children. They also learned more about the development of the UCU Library that would include more resources that they don't have yet. USAID/ASHA grant will partially fund the building of the library, but more funding is needed.
The team also met with others in Kampala, including an MP who had taken part in a Witherspoon Fellowship program in the United States. The relationships continue to strengthen and will continue as we look forward to the future and what the Lord will have for us in ministry together. The best years are truly ahead.
Five Talents at Lambeth: Craig Cole just gave his talk on the outreach at Lambeth that Five Talents did in the Marketplace, as well as taking part in the march into London for the MDG goals with the bishops. Five Talents held workshops and the outreach in the Marketplace was filled with stories of engaging bishops in the vital work being done by Five Talents.
I shared the video that is now up (see below) and shared some short personal reflections on Lambeth.
Mission Team with TIPS (Truro's ministry of hospitality to international students) - The team took international students across the United States and included lots of young people and children as well. Through this mission team, TIPS for Teens is now kicking off as part of outreach after Youth Alpha.
Mission Team to Anacostia, DC - A youth team also served the people in Anacostia over the summer and plan to continue those relationships in a very challenging part of the city - extending hospitality and friendship to those who live in the inner-city.
I'm doing a presentation tomorrow night on my experiences at the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury. This is a short video that I prepared for that presentation.
The video opens with a view of the "Big Top" where Anglican bishops from all around the world met in Canterbury, England (July-Aug 2008) - well except for about 200 of them that stayed home. While all the bishops are ensconced inside the Big Top, we have an overview of the Kent University campus where they all stayed for three weeks. We do come across a few of the bishops' wives who escaped. There are also photos of friends who covered the event, as well as photos from press conferences (the official Lambeth ones and the somewhat unofficial "TEC" ones), as well as photos from inside Canterbury Cathedral after the final closing Eucharist. There are also photos of friends, including a very special gathering at the end of the Lambeth Conference where we all met upstairs at the Canterbury pub called "The Parrot" as the 2008 Lambeth Conference finally came to close.
We remember Jeffery John as a being selected to be a bishop by Rowan Williams not long after he took office and then rescinded the invitation. Ruth Gledhill reports (and George Conger reports here) that he's back.
UPDATE: The Telegraph has their article here. Looks like Wales, Rowan Williams birthplace, is poised to break the moratorium first. As we know, the Archbishop of Wales has been chummy-chummy with the folks at 815 of late. Has anyone seen Peter Pettigrew lately?
NOTE: Our question to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams (who is the former primate of Wales) is this: "It's two o'clock in the morning in London, do you know who your friends are?
LATER: The Guardian now has the story as well here.
The gay clergyman whose abortive appointment as Bishop of Reading came close to splitting the Church of England could soon become Britain’s first openly gay diocesan bishop.
Dr Jeffrey John, the Dean of St Albans, who two years ago celebrated a civil partnership ceremony with another priest, is to be nominated as Bishop of Bangor in North Wales.
Liberals welcomed the news, but conservatives gave warning that it would aggravate the tensions over sexuality that are threatening to rend the Anglican Communion in two and revive the rancour that followed the consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson in New Hampshire in the US five years ago. Since then, the 38 provinces of the Church have agreed to observe a moratorium on such consecrations.
Several candidates are likely to be nominated for the Bangor post, but Dr John has the support of senior figures in the Church in Wales, according to informed sources. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, whose authority does not extend beyond England, would have no power to prevent such an appointment.
Read the whole thing here. Read George Conger's article here.
1. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 2. When I Paint My Masterpiece 3. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again 4. Not Dark Yet 5. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 6. Million Miles 7. Desolation Row 8. The Levee's Gonna Break 9. She Belongs To Me 10. Honest With Me 11. Simple Twist Of Fate 12. Highway 61 Revisited 13. Queen Jane Approximately 14. Thunder On The Mountain 15. Like A Rolling Stone
UPDATE:RWB reminds us that Dylan has not put away particular songs, even now. RWB's got up the August 23rd 2008 performance (with quite a moving bit on the harp) of one of his classic compositions off of Slow Train Coming. It's as fresh today as it was back then.
They ask me how I feel And if my love is real And how I know I'll make it through. And they, they look at me and frown, They'd like to drive me from this town, They don't want me around 'Cause I believe in you.
They show me to the door, They say don't come back no more 'Cause I don't be like they'd like me to, And I walk out on my own A thousand miles from home But I don't feel alone 'Cause I believe in you.
I believe in you even through the tears and the laughter, I believe in you even though we be apart. I believe in you even on the morning after. Oh, when the dawn is nearing Oh, when the night is disappearing Oh, this feeling is still here in my heart.
Don't let me drift too far, Keep me where you are Where I will always be renewed. And that which you've given me today Is worth more than I could pay And no matter what they say I believe in you.
I believe in you when winter turn to summer, I believe in you when white turn to black, I believe in you even though I be outnumbered. Oh, though the earth may shake me Oh, though my friends forsake me Oh, even that couldn't make me go back.
Don't let me change my heart, Keep me set apart From all the plans they do pursue. And I, I don't mind the pain Don't mind the driving rain I know I will sustain 'Cause I believe in you.
