Your Full Height (New Song)

Here’s a new song from me. Stayed up till 3 am Saturday finishing it. I like how it came out. A song for our time, for the past few weeks, and for what may well be our “new normal” for a while…

It’s been a crazy few weeks, yes? Inauguration. A President with disapproval ratings in the first eight days. Women’s March. Airport protests. Today, marches with the LGBTQ community. The people are mobilizing like never before…and that’s not an #alternativefact. And this morning, news that the State Department will not enforced the Trump Travel Ban.
Friends, I hope you early lesson you take from this is that standing up and speaking out matters. The title and key line of this song is one I learned from my dear friend, John Thornburg. Some years back, he said it to me after one of my sermons, and I loved it. I’ve used it a lot with folks lately. I think it fits out time.

Our time is a time where we are all called to overcome our fears, and stand up to our full height. NEVER forget the power that the people have.

Share as you wish.

“YOUR FULL HEIGHT”

Stand up to your full height
Shine out with your heart light
Raise your fist, and join the fight.
You’re not alone.
You’re not alone.
You’re not alone.

So your pushing up the covers to the top of your head
And your spending every moment lying here in the bed
Cause the news on the television fills you with dread
Every day.

Well, I know the future seems dark and unclear
But I pray you can listen, I hope you can hear
The way to get your hope again, and conquer your fear
Is to say…

Chorus

Millions of us showing up, we’re out in the streets
We find the intersections where the causes all meet
It’s a power that you just cannot put down with a Tweet
Any more.

The power of the people where we all lend a hand
The outcast and the stranger, every woman and man
All cultures and all races have a place in this land
We adore.

Chorus