SO MUCH MORE

You are my wounding

You are my healing
You are the cost and the price
You got me reeling
From this imagining
Everything You are Lord
Everything You are
You are the beginning
You are the end
You are the Everlasting
You are the light
That lights my path
You got me thinking
I am so very glad

I am Yours

How grace must wound
Before it heals
How mercy must find you
In the place you can receive it
How love will lift you
From the high place of your pride
You are the first
You are the last
You are the Prince of Peace
That reigns in my heart
You are the Almighty
You are the whisper in the storm
You are the thunder
That peels back the storm
O Lord You are
The I AM
The Jealous God
Who wants me for Himself
You are Lord You are
Yes You are
And You are so much more

Angel Barreto

CARDS AND PICTURES

Every card I have kept
From times that people connected
In marriage
In birth
In death
Time has its way
With everyone I know
Time has its way
In everything we are
Every picture taken
Freezes a moment
Stills a time
In memory
In forgetting who
In innocence
In wishing one could
Never have been there
This suitcase
This box
This corner of the drawer
Can hold a life
Can hold dreams
Can hold regrets
In every card kept
In every picture taken
In every line written
Of everybody’s life
Time just moves on
Leaving behind the things
Once so important
One had to write about it
One had to snap a shot of it
One had to hold on to it
In every card kept
In every picture taken
In every life lived

Angel Barreto

PURSUE

I need to get up
I need to move
I need to sit at
The feet of my Lord
To pursue You
To follow You
To seek You
With all I have
With all I am
I need to be still
I need to praise You
I need to know that You are God
I need to get going
To do all that I am to
I need to pursue You Lord
To give You my life
In all the little details
To submit to You
In all the little details
My heart
My mind
My soul
My strength
To submit to You
To pursue You
To be still before You
I need to get up
I need to move
I need to sit at
The feet of my Lord
I need You Father
I need You Jesus
I need You Holy Spirit
I need You

Angel Barreto

AS YOU BECOME

I have no light
I walk in darkness
I am here where I can’t find You Lord
I am crying out Lord
In my trouble
I am trusting in Your name
Here in this dark storm

Your name became an anchor
Your name became my rock
In the midst of darkness
In the storm tossed night
I cried out to You Lord
You answered in the silence of Your peace
As You become the very thing I need
As You become the very thing
Your word says You are

As You become the very thing
I have read You to be
In the darkness
In the stillness
In the silence
In the trials
In the fire
You to me become the very thing I need

I have lost all dignity
I have lost all appearance
My pride is broken here
I can no longer provide
I can no longer be strong
I can no longer just have the knowledge
As You become the very thing
I now know You to be

Angel Barreto