“Lord, I feel the weight of a mountain
Pressing down inside my soul
I can see the pillars fallin’
There ain’t nothin’ left to hold
The reigns are broken too
I can’t steer this
There’s nothing I can do
Except to throw my arms out
Take me to
A place where love can mend these wounds
Where mystery can dance with truth
And the broken soul finds refuge”
from Refuge by Matthew Perryman Jones
Nashville based Matthew Perryman Jones is a songwriter of poetic touch and spiritual depth. Refuge is the song that gave his first album Throwing Punches In the Dark its title and it is a stunning piece of prayer writing. Life can knock us all around without us asking for it and when it does we need this place of refuge that Jones seeks. A place “where mystery can dance with truth” is an incisive line that frees us up from clichéd answers that our out of place when souls are broken. Sometimes the truth shimmies and shakes and won’t stand still for us to grasp it. At moments like these holding mystery close as we are led on a merry dance is all we can do.
Quality! I've listened to MPJ for years and always find him cathartic and hopeful.
Posted by: Whitney | 27/01/2011 at 02:19 PM