My New Anthem

When clouds veil sun
And disaster comes
Oh my soul, oh my soul

When waters rise
And hope takes flight
O my soul, o my soul

O my soul

Ever faithful, ever true
You are known
You never let go

You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go

When clouds brought rain
And disaster came
Oh my soul, oh my soul

When waters rose
And hope had flown
Oh my soul, oh my soul

Oh my soul

Ever faithful, ever true
You are known
You never let go

You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go

Oh my soul overflows
Oh what love
Oh what love

Oh my soul fills with hope
Perfect love that never lets go

You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go

You never let go
You never let go
You never let go

Oh what love
Oh what love
Oh what love

Oh what love
Oh what love
Oh what love

In joy and pain
In sun and rain
You're the same
Oh You never let go

In joy and pain
In sun and rain
You're the same
Oh You never let go

Never let go
You never let go

*****

This song is on David Crowder's newest CD ('Remedy', it came out on Tuesday) and I can't help but wonder if he wrote it during the time he came off the road after his pastor's tragic death. From my understanding, Crowder and his pastor were best buds and had started this church together before David Crowder was a name people recognized. Last spring, the pastor was struck by lightning and killed while baptising a member of the church. Crowder chose to postpone his next CD ('B Collision') and fall tour so that he could be home with his church family so that they could all heal together. To me, that makes the song even more poignant...it was written when he and his entire church family needed to know they were being held with both a tenderness and fierce passion they could never understand.

How good God is to never let go...when we are so quick to forsake His grasp.