Can you say amazing? Cause I can

Wedding Dress

(words and music by derek webb)

if you could love me as a wife

and for my wedding gift, your life

should that be all i’ll ever need

or is there more i’m looking for

and should i read between the lines

and look for blessings in disguise

to make me handsome, rich, and wise

is that really what you want

(chorus)

i am a whore i do confess

but i put you on just like a wedding dress

and i run down the aisle

i’m a prodigal with no way home

but i put you on just like a ring of gold

and i run down the aisle to you

so could you love this bastard child

though i don’t trust you to provide

with one hand in a pot of gold

and with the other in your side

i am so easily satisfied

by the call of lovers less wild

that i would take a little cash over your very flesh and blood

(chorus)

because money cannot buy

a husband’s jealous eye

when you have knowingly deceived his wife

It's been awhile since a christian artist has made me think. If anyone could be considered the lyrical equivalent to Bob Dylan in the evangelical world, it would be Derek Webb. Although I've heard this song a million times, each time is like hearing it for the first time. Like seeing a sunrise, or hearing your loved one laugh, it is new with every experience.

I am a whore. To lust, to pride, to avarice, to gossip, to the chains of sin

I am a bastard child, adopted into the family of God, saved by the deep and unfathomable grace of Christ.

I am covered, in all of my filth, all of my rotten, despicable nature, by the purity of Christ

I am weak

I am strong

I am a slave

I am free