Just to be
Just to be is  blessing
Just it live is holy
- Abraham Joshua Heschel

© 2008 Matt Henry
        
Some folks get caught up in
Healing and feeling
Revealing and dealing
And sealing their fate.

I can't believe that the
Good's gone before us
Nor can I believe that
We're expected to wait

I'm gonna count all the blessings
'til they add up to one
I'm gonna count all the blessings
'til I count down to one.
 

I sit myself under
A sky full of thunder
And wonder when wonder
Became so ignored.

We haven't taught her
But I fear that my daughter
Will learn to give up
And say "Daddy, I'm bored."

I'm gonna count all the blessings
'til they add up to one
I'm gonna count all the blessings
'til I count down to one.
 Just to be is  blessing
Just it live is holy

I get distracted by
My complicity
Complicating theSimplicity that I sense.

With all of this beauty
Crying out to injustice
How dare I put my derriere
Up on the fence?

I'm gonna count all the blessings
'til they add up to one
I'm gonna count all the blessings
'til I count down to one.

 Just to be is  blessing
Just it live is holy
Justice is screaming out
To all us who dream about
Ways and means we need
To birth compassion and care.

That we won't reach perfection
Won't permit our rejection
Of compassion's direction:
That all life is shared.