Lost & Found
By, Chelan Rene’ Russ
2005 – Chords uncertain
You formed me from the depths; You made me your own
My range of thoughts are listened to; so I might as well expose
My deepest fears (that) I’ve held on too tightly for (all these) years
I choose to surrender & be…
Lost in the fullness of you
In the mountains of your grace (You are…)
Found in the emptiness of me (yeah)
Intimacy, Intimacy
With surroundings unfamiliar, I feel unknown
Tryin’ to make myself important; a vice to which I’m prone
Help me – to see – my value lies in nothing that I do,
But in Whom I belong to! I am…
(Chorus 2): Lost in the fullness of you
In the ocean of your love (where you are…)
Found in the emptiness of me (yeah)
Intimacy, (true) Intimacy (is when I’m…)
Chorus 1: Lost in the fullness of you
In the mountains of your grace (you’re finally)
Found in the emptiness of me (of me)
Intimacy, Intimacy
(Softer): Found in the emptiness
Of a broken vessel,
broken pride (linger on this note)
Intimacy, Intimacy
Intimacy, Intimacy
Slower: Intimacy (Lord) See into me
Intro:
I wrote this song in reflection upon the previous year & how I’d become so self-absorbed, self-focused. After being a part of one church since age two, & a pastor’s kid at that, I moved to Southern OR. After 9 months of searching & praying, we found a great new church home & I thought I should join their worship team to make myself useful.
After reading a book, The Heart of the Artist, I can see now how I very slowly began receiving my self-worth from singing – in how many mistakes I made while on stage, or how many compliments I received later that day.
But if I take Him at His Word, I’m his child, worth everything to Him; I could be deaf, mute, blind, & brain-dead and not be loved any less than as I am right now…or as I have been in my past – right in the middle of sin. He gives his love & grace to us simply because we’re his kids.
Inspirations:
* Psalm 139:13-14, 23-24 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it!
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
* Jeremiah 29:12-13 (NLV) In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.
* Matthew 16:24-26 (The Message) Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself?
* Table Rock Fellowship – Medford, OR
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