Between the Dreaming n' the Coming True

This music album title excites me. So many of us dream of our dreams coming true. But hang on... the process towards seeing that light at the end of the mystery tunnel is something not to be belittled or disdained over. It is necessary. The journey of finding Hope (and joy and strength) in the midst of darkness, un-peace and confusion is beautiful.

You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived…somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time. - Bebo Norman

Bebo Norman, one of my favourite singers and songwriters, found Peace in a world that looks so confusing and frightening, having watched friends in failing marriages, people that he loves get sick and die... war and poverty and natural disaster...

But.."whether we want to admit it or not, we (Christians) are in the same place as those who don't believe as we do," Norman says. "For all of us, life is fluid. It ebbs and flows. We get caught in darkness and some days we escape into light. Life is beautiful one moment and tragic the next. But we seem to spend all our time trying to separate the two - to somehow weed out the bad moments and highlight the good. We forget that all these things flow into one another."

Out of this perspective flowed songs lived out in a real world that is messy and beautiful all at the same time, into Between the Dreaming and the Coming True, an epic that whispers intimately and a pledge of love that endures through the worst of times.

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I Will Lift My Eyes
Written by Bebo Norman and Jason Ingram

God, my God, I cry out
Your beloved needs You now
God, be near, calm my fear
And take my doubt

Your kindness is what pulls me up
Your love is all that draws me in

I will lift my eyes to the Maker
Of the mountains I can’t climb
I will lift my eyes to the Calmer
Of the oceans raging wild
I will lift my eyes to the Healer
Of the hurt I hold inside
I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes to You

God, my God, let Mercy sing
Her melody over me
God, right here all I bring
Is all of me

‘Cause You are and You were and You will be forever
The Lover I need to save me
‘Cause You fashioned the earth and You hold it together, God
So hold me now

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(Go to Bebo Norman's official site to listen to this song. Bebo Norman's heartfelt sharing on his new album can be found here)