Through the Open Door
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Things got worse and he had to dry out So they sent him to New Orleans He met a half-breed Choctaw woman And that’s how I came to be I was a raised by widow on a little farm on The Mississippi-Louisiana line But just like my daddy I was Searching for something And I left that land behind Trying to get free with philosophy Will take its toll in time Thank God I had a Woman praying for me On the Mississippi-Louisiana line My daddy got saved In a sawdust chapel He fell down on his knees His life was new but his days were few And he died from his disease Me, I can remember hearing The Gospel of God’s amazing grace Because of the Prayers of a godly woman One day I’ll see my daddy’s face Through the Open Door One day I’ll see my daddy’s face Your wine and women and sinful living Mississippi-Louisiana Line Will take its toll in time The Mountain, the Desert, and the Sea I pray you have a Down, Down Woman praying for you Miracle of Marriage On your Mississippi-Louisiana line God Is Calling Faithful Men I pray you have someone Dark Night Praying for you The Gadarene On your Mississippi-Louisiana line Beneath the Deep On your Louisiana-Mississippi line Let the Children Come On your Mississippi-Louisiana line Now and Forevermore (Mae’s Song) Claim This Land THE MOuntain, Through the Open Door THE DESErT AND THE SEA For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our Eclogue for the Church Triumphant weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15 Photography © 2010 Kori Hoffman used by permission When the winter wind comes whipping All Words and Music by Michael Anthony Milton Through the Appalachian pass © 2010 Michael Anthony Milton and Bethesda Words and Music. BMI, All rights reserved. It can cut right through your skin And slice your soul This recording is Copyright s Bethesda Words and Music, All rights reserved. If you’re traveling in the mountains should That sudden storm arrive There’s no human way You’ll make it out alive MISSISSIPPI-LOuisiana LINE The lines have fallen for me in Then you’ll know in that hour pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. Psalms 16:6 There is no earthly power And desperation forces you to say Daddy was born to a Christian family “I need to pray…” On the Mississippi-Louisiana line But he wanted to be free If the scorching desert sands begin and set to the sea To set your skin on fire And he left that home behind And your tongue is dry And longing for a drink Before he was grown to be a man If you begin to see mirages He had sailed the seven seas Of a shady little place But the door he closed When you lap up only more and the life he chose Sand in your face Brought him to his knees Then you know in that hour Wine and women and sinful living There is no other power Will take their toll in time And desperate desert days Thank God he had a Can have a way Mamma praying for him To make you pray… On the Mississippi-Louisiana line Then you know in that hour THE MIracle OF MArriage There is no human power Therefore a man shall leave his Your desperation presses you to say father and his mother and hold fast “I’ve got to pray…” to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. Matthew 19:5 When the raging waves of life Begin to toss you to and fro In the beginning as time began And you’re thrown over God took a rib from a sleeping man The side into the sea And fashioned a It can kill a proud man to say it Woman to make humanity When he’s so self-assured This is how it came to be But a drowning man can Have no other plea And He called for the Man to love his wife Than to cry from the With all of his power for all of his life Depths of a watery grave And He called for the God I need You, I need You to save Woman to honor her man I have no other hope This much we understand In such a day I have to pray… But there’s more to the song He is the way, Because something went wrong He is the truth and the life And the good that God I confess that He paid the highest price Made became flawed I pray to You O Lord Jesus Christ But the miracle of marriage is God You who knew the mountain, When a man and a woman fall in love The desert and the sea No Cupid shoots arrows Come to me From Hollywood When the winter wind comes whipping But when love becomes commitment Through the Appalachian pass And commitment turns to vows It can cut right through your skin The angels begin to applaud And slice your soul For the miracle of marriage is God If you’re traveling in the mountains should That sudden storm arrive There’s no human way you’ll Don’t tell me that a marriage Make it out alive That began with such power Must be thrown overboard for Then you’ll know in that hour The sea to devour There is no human power When there’s grace from the One And desperation forces you to say Who speaks stillness to the sea “I need to pray…” And who welcomed a sinner like me Down, Down Say, Honey, I’m beginning to see For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks That the elderly couple in to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were The nursing home darkened. romans 1:21 Holding hands in a world That seems all their own Down, down Must have come through Man goes down Times of struggle and Whenever his pride goes up Must have come through times of pain I have seen the sad result And yet this special love remains Filling a sinner’s cup Because a long time ago Down, down Each of them had to let go Man goes down Of their own lives to find this love Begins with unbelief Leads to folly, leads to death And the miracle of Leaves his family grief Marriage is from above Yes the miracle of marriage is His love We are without excuse For we have eternity written GOD IS CALLING FAITHFuL MEN on our hearts And what you have heard from me We are without excuse in the presence of many witnesses And what shall become entrust to faithful men who will be able Of the unrepentant one? to teach others also. 2 Timothy 2:2 Down, down God is calling faithful men, Man goes down Shepherds for His flock to tend; Resisting to the end His the vision, He ordains, And God who calls all to repent He supplies and He sustains; Finally gives him to his sin God is calling faithful men, Down, down Shepherds for His flock to tend. Man goes down Grounded in His Word, their light, Whenever his pride goes up Out they go into the night; I have known the sad result Seeking lambs who’ve gone astray, That fills a sinner’s cup Leading them back to the Way; The Gadarene God is calling faithful men, Shepherds for His flock to tend. Beneath THE DEEP Let not many teachers be, Behold! I tell you a mystery. Greater judgments will they see, We shall not all sleep, but we shall But, as they do heed God’s call, all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling Christ becomes their all in all; of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the God is calling faithful men, trumpet will sound, and the dead will be Shepherds for His flock to tend. raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 Those who are led by nail-pierced hand, Let them pastor in our land, Beneath Feeding us with tender care, The deep Word and Sacrament and Prayer; Dark mines of Night God is calling faithful men, I believe Shepherds for His flock to tend. A flower grows in hidden light Beneath DArK NIGHT OF THE SOuL The ground Why are you cast down, O my soul, Of frozen earth and why are you in turmoil within me? I believe Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, A seed will soon give birth my salvation and my God. Psalms 42:11 Behind The eyes I’ve been down A soldier lies Lost and found I believe Alone at the river The lad will one day rise Seeking the Giver Beyond Someone to help me get through The stars The dark night So far above Of the soul I believe There lives a God of love I remember One day The crowds and splendor Some way The joy of communion The sky gives way Like snow on the mountain To the Son But now I have fallen deep into As the soldier comes to life The dark night of the soul And the flower blooms in light But when the night is the darkest LET THE CHILDrEN COME That’s when the stars shine brightest But Jesus called them to Him, saying, And as I reflect on this night “Let the children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs I see how the Lord was my light the kingdom of God.” Luke 18:16 And in the darkest night of my soul Heard a song, I heard a song In the world of grown ups, I know there is One Why are you cast down, my soul Who will always listen to me.