Anyway

This song by Nichole Nordeman was played at Redeemer Church which meets in Hunter College here in NYC. A soloist came up and sang/played it on piano. It's a beautiful song, you should check it out. It's about how we're so filthy and dusty from years of sin and it's after scraping off the years of baggage and submitting it to Christ that we get a glimpse of who we really are. Some of you, I know, would really get a lot out of this song. It moved me when I heard it, and I felt like it was speaking to me, deep down.

~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7UggqrnEr0 ~

Bless the day this restoration is complete
Dirty dusty something must be underneath
So I scrape and I scuff
Though it's never quite enough
I am starting to see me finally...

A gallery of paintings new and paintings old
I guess it's no surprise that I'm no Michaelangelo.
Every layer of mine hides a lovely design
It might take a little patience
It might take a little time...

But you called me beautiful
When you saw my shame
And you placed me on the wall
Anyway.

You who have begun this work will someday see
A portrait of the holiness you meant for me
So I polish and shine
Til it's easier to find even an outline of mine

But you called me beautiful
When you saw my shame
And you placed me on the wall
Anyway
Anyway
And you placed me on the wall
Anyway