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the voice of Jesus, andrew peterson

I know you’ve been afraid
Don’t know what to do
You’ve been lost in the questions
I don’t know what to say
I’m sure if I were you I’d proceed with some caution

But I want you to know
When the joy that you feel
Leaves a terrible ache in your bones
It’s the voice of Jesus
Calling you back home

I know you’ve got a lot
Spinning in your head
All this emptiness fills you
Maybe you could try Laying in your bed
To ask the silence to still you

And you might hear a beat
On the door of your heart
When you do, let it open up wide
It’s the voice of Jesus
Calling you his bride

Once upon a time there was a little boy
Who wandered the forest, abandoned
And he heard in the leaves
And behind every tree
The sound of a secret companion
Following

So listen, little girl,
Somewhere there’s a King
Who will love you forever
And nothing in the world
Could ever come between You, my love, and this Lover

So when I kiss you at night
And I turn out the light
And I tell you you’re never alone
It’s the voice of Jesus
Calling you
It’s the voice of Jesus
Calling you his own

Everyone needs to hear this some time, and these few days I have been thinking of a few people whom, I think, need it a little more right now.

Some monk-foot-made wine for you?

I met some Norbertine canons this week—they really are wonderful priests and quite hilarious people—and also some of their boys from the affiliated prep school. The boys were absolutely excited to show us this video and to point out their teachers and priests, but we all could not help but notice that if one had not known that it was a vocations video, one might very easily think that it is either an ad for a vineyard dedicated to home-grown organic wine, or something. (The boys, at the wine-making scene: ’They don’t really do that. They planted olive trees, but I think no one watered ‘em, so they died.”)

I love that, that it’s so very slightly bumbling.