Meeting

I was young when I first met you in the old steppled church

Led by example and influential friends

I bowed down before you and told you my sins 

Lying to parents, cheating on tests, disobeying orders led into the rest

I didn't feel very different, like everyone said I would

I just knew I had to do one thing, I had to be good

All my life, I sat in church and heard the same things

You died for my sin and were the king of kings 

Yet, why didn't I feel different or moved by this? 

Because I hadn't lived life long enough to comprehend it

Years went on and I was led here and there 

But I never forgot your stories because I still cared 

I didn't like being sinful and hiding my face 

From your never-ending mercy and your loving grace 

So at times I searched for you and sometimes I ran away

And sometimes I knew I had been led astray 

So once I decided to fight my way back 

I wanted out of the darkness and the Devil's attacks

So I made it my mission to find you again

To feel different and let you in

One night I did it, in front of hundreds of people 

I feel down before you in a school with no steeple

Led by your spirit and the pull of my tears

I said all my sins that had gathered up through the years

Gossip, secrets, worry

Doubt, temptation, and fury

As the final words slipped out, I felt held down by hands

Circled all around me, sat my praying friends

And that's when I found you, when I escaped my darkest time

In a room full of music, and family, your love shined

I rose from the altar and was welcomed by hugs

My new path of life had officialy begun

In your praise, I rose my hands and belted the last words of a song

I realized that through all my trials, you had been there all along 

I finally felt different and overjoyed at last 

Right then and there, I left my old self in the past

I was older when I found you in front of the school stage 

You are great and magnificent and because of you, I am changed.