Would you Change?

I have LOVED Tracy Chapman since I was in college. The song Change has been playing on my ipod recently and making me think a lot about how grateful I am for seeing the "face of God and love" over the past year and all the change it has brought about it my life.

If you knew that you would die today, Saw the face of God and love, Would you change? Would you change? If you knew that love can break your heart When you're down so low you cannot fall Would you change? Would you change? How bad, how good does it need to get? How many losses? How much regret? What chain reaction would cause an effect? Makes you turn around, Makes you try to explain, Makes you forgive and forget, Makes you change? Makes you change? If you knew that you would be alone, Knowing right, being wrong, Would you change? Would you change? If you knew that you would find a truth That brings up pain that can't be soothed Would you change? Would you change? How bad, how good does it need to get? How many losses? How much regret? What chain reaction would cause an effect? Makes you turn around, Makes you try to explain, Makes you forgive and forget, Makes you change? Makes you change? Are you so upright you can't be bent? If it comes to blows are you so sure you won't be crawling? If not for the good, why risk falling? Why risk falling? If everything you think you know, Makes your life unbearable, Would you change? Would you change? If you'd broken every rule and vow, And hard times come to bring you down, Would you change? Would you change? If you knew that you would die today, If you saw the face of God and love, Would you change? Would you change? Would you change? Would you change? If you saw the face of God and love If you saw the face of God and love Would you change? Would you change?

Almost every stanza of this song deserves a blog entry and touches me in some way. Maybe I will break it down and write more later, but for now I just want the words to soak in.

With all my being I thank You for the change you are making in my heart and life, renewing my mind and making me more like You. Thank You for the courage to face the past and forgive and forget. Thank You for the truth, even the painful kind that can only be soothed by You, that sets me free. "I have heard of You by hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You." (Job 42:5)