Sweetly Falling

How can we keep alive
the love that once met us here?
I know it hasn’t been long
since last we were dwelling in
the humbled and joyful heart
the bond that once kept us standing strong

We hold tight to what we can
walk steadily, keeping faith
but how can we pass through it all?
the memories start to fade
and we can’t see where to go
when fear, like shadows, begin to fall

Tonight can you promise me
that you’ll be my anchor to
hold me fast to the ground?
when blow ceaseless, angry winds
that try to sweep me away
and there, among you’ll be found

Will you forget yesterday?
Will you forget tomorrow too?
etch them like words on your heart
the past held too much to be
thrown away carelessly
let this be the time that you start

That you open up your eyes
remembering all that was
and all that in time will be
maybe then when you glance
across old, fading photographs
it will be history you see

History that surely held
more than just rhymes and tales
of the hours that passed us by
those days never seemed too long
and this feeling never wrong
to beg for just one more try

And maybe then we’ll go back
maybe we’ll take a chance
to see what the future might give
and what blessings are in store
but how could we ask for more
in this life of abundance we live?

Oh, how in perfect joy!
how beautiful would it be
for love to reign once again
for sweetly He’d let us fall
to arms that held us through it all
to love that came first from Him

Love unconditional
love without faltering
holding us certain and tight
love that can have no end
love that threads swift to mend
can that love meet us here tonight?