S4:E19 – Only the Lover Sings: Rex Bradshaw, “The Digger’s Tale”

The Digger's Tale by Rex Bradshaw | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/OTW_S4-E19-OTLS_Rex-Bradshaw.mp3 Rex Bradshaw lives with his wife and daughter in Mississippi, where he is a member of St. Stephen’s Anglican Church. He teaches economics and geography at Jackson Academy. He is at work on several literary projects and writes occasional essays on theology and education. Check out more of Rex’s writing online:  The Wound and The Blessing Reading Against Mammon: Ruskin’s “Sesame” Thomas Traherne and the “Infant-Ey” The Kenotic Image: St Sophrony and Austin Farrer on the Imagination   Meet Me at the Well by Matthew Clark Every thirst we’ve cursed is leading to a Spring our maps misplaced  Like every human ache awoken in our broken hearts is grace  Tracing through the places we have dug in desperate thirst To lead us to the Well who comes to meet us at our worst    CHORUS  Oh come, come and meet me at the Well   If you’ve tried your hand at love and failed Come, come and meet me at the Well  Come drink the Living Water and be healed, come be healed         In the face of Christ, there is a light revealing our disease  But the Lord of Peace has come to see the prisoners released  So pour upon this cracked earth Living Water, Lord and shape  From willing clay a Living Bride revived before your Face    BRIDGE The day I saw you seeing me  That was the first time I could see The truth that I was loved completely  I feel a new song coming on I feel my lost heart coming home Oh let the whole world come and drink  And sing the song of the redeemed    CHORUS  Oh come, come and meet me at the Well   If you’ve tried your hand at love and failed Come, come and meet me at the Well  Come drink the Living Water and be healed, come be healed         Come behold, come Beloved, come be held, come be whole, come be healed ©2022 Matthew Clark, Path in the Pines Music, ASCAP The post S4:E19 – Only the Lover Sings: Rex Bradshaw, “The Digger’s Tale” appeared first on Matthew Clark.