Ordinary People

WE ARE ORDINARY PEOPLE

CAUGHT UP IN EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS

EVENTS FOR WHICH WE ARE ILL PREPARED

EVENTS WHICH OFTEN OVERWHELMED US

AND WE BEHAVE POORLY

BUT THIS IS WHERE GOD CHOOSES TO MEET HIS PEOPLE

THIS IS WHAT GIVES JESUS HIS UNIQUE STATURE

FOR BEING HUMAN

HE KNEW WHAT IT MEANT TO BE TOUCHED BY LIFE

WHEN IT GOES TO ASHES

WHEN THINGS GO WRONG

NO ROOM FOR A PREGNANT WOMAN

CHASED BY SOLDIERS OUT TO KILL BABIES

THE LONG ORDINARY YEARS

OF TRYING TO SUPPORT HIS MOTHER

GAINING THE RESPECT OF HIS NEIGHBORS

THEN LOSING IT

CHASED FROM HIS OWN HOMETOWN

HIS FAMILY THINKING HIM CRAZY

TRYING TO MAKE A KINGDOM OF SOULS

THEY WOULD MAKE HIM KING OF THE LAND

TRYING TO TEACH HIS SIMPLE MESSAGE TO HIS FOLLOWERS

THEY KEPT MISUNDERSTANDING

BUT WHAT HE COULD DO

WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE WOULDN'T WORK

HE COULD WORK A PIECE OF WOOD

HE MADE FARM IMPLEMENTS

AND HE COULD BRAG

THAT HIS YOKES WERE EASY

THEY WOULDN'T RUB THE ANIMAL RAW

THAT HIS YOKES WERE EASY

HE COULD MAKE THEIR BURDENS LIGHT

IF ONLY HE THOUGHT

I COULD SHAPE MEN AS I SHAPE WOOD

WOOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY FRIEND

MY PEOPLE MY PEOPLE

GIVEN TO ME BY MY FATHER

GIVEN TO ME TO BE SAVED

HOW I HUNGER FOR YOUR LOVE

IMPERFECT AS IT IS

HOW I HUNGER FOR YOUR LOVE

YOU ARE THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF MY LOVE

BEGINNING AND END

ORDINARY LETTERS

GIVEN MYSTICAL MEANING

AS ALL MY PEOPLE

ALL MY ORDINARY PEOPLE

ARE RAISED TO A MYSTICAL LEVEL

BY MY DEATH

A DEATH THEY OFTEN DO NOT VALUE

NOR WILL THEY VALUE THEIR EXALTED NATURE

AND YET I LOVE THEM WHERE THEY ARE

AS I LABOR TO MAKE THEIR ROUGH WAYS PLAIN

THEIR CROOKED WAYS STRAIGHT

AS I POUR MYSELF OUT

TO FILL THEIR VALLEYS UP WITH ME

O THAT I COULD SHAPE THEM AS I SHAPE WOOD

WOOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY FRIEND

THE WIND MUST HAVE SHIFTED

FOR SUDDENLY

I FELT A CHILL

FRANK A VOLLMER