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Untouched and Burning

from This Marvelous Grief by Besides Daniel

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“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us… It is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven. It is in everybody, and if we could see it we would see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun that would make all the darkness and cruelty of life vanish completely…I have no program for this seeing.  It is only given.  But the gate of heaven is everywhere.” -Thomas Merton

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He gives it up the fight is gone
quiet at rest now
there is no movement at all
inside his chest now

He is the seed that grows new men
the breath the motion in all of us

You have crafted us
We all reach for you.
But we don't know how to speak your name
Help us to love ourselves

There is a moment that we find we become
what we have always known that we could be
look it's a secret revealed on the other side,
a language forgotten that we all will remember somehow

we run from want and we want to live
hiding from beauty inside ourselves
but there is a secret inside our chests
untouched and burning

you have put this here
so that we reach for you
But we don't know how to speak your name
help us to love ourselves.

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from This Marvelous Grief, released March 13, 2013

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Besides Daniel Atlanta, Georgia

Danny Brewer ( AKA Besides Daniel ) has found an audience with his unique blend of poetic lyricism, evocative vocals, and cathartic honesty. Think "Lenard Cohen or Iron & Wine meets Ry X " … For fans of The Tallest Man on Earth, Bon Iver, Gregory Alan Isakov, Conor Oberst, Sufjan Stevens, or Ray Lamontagne. ... more

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