I did not write this. It is on the "featured advent music" posted below: "So Elated." I am going to start featuring and interacting with great Christian artistic expressions more on this blog.. Here is a great song that can be downloaded for free at NOISETRADE. To hear the song on the band's myspace without downloading it, go HERE and click on "Zechariah and the Least Expected".
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Jerusalem and the holy temple
filled with smoke
Zechariah shuns the news
from the angel of hope
stuck behind an incense cloud
of religion and disappointment

God keeps slipping out of underneath rocks
in areas off the beaten path
open both your eyes

prophets and kings and poets
can contribute their work
just like eggs in a nest are alive
with the promise of birth
but the Lord of Creation
will not be subjected to
expectations

God keeps slipping out from underneath rocks
in areas off the beaten path
open both your eyes

Elizabeth, barren, her knees
black and dirty like coal
her consistent prayers
float to the sky and revive her soul
God we will wait
though we don’t understand
Your redemptive
story

God keeps slipping out from underneath rocks
in areas of the beaten path
open both your eyes