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Our journey with Jesus often contains stretches of doubt, alienation, and loneliness. Sometimes it is our actions or lifestyle that makes us feel estranged, other times a natural growing process when our faith moults like the cicada or a new skin emeres like the young snake - leaving behind a skin or shell. This song is a petition to be renewed and for a rich sense of God’s immanence to remain during a difficult season.

We usually play this tune in Bm, but brought it down a ½ step for this recording. On a guitar, we tuned down a ½ step to keep the chord formations mostly basic first position chords (Bm, A, Em, F# for the verse and G, Am, C, Em for the chorus). For worship, everybody sings the whole song together. For the purposes of this recording we varied some of the voicing and wanted to highlight a strong female vocal as the leader for this song.

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Stay close, don’t feel far.
Help me feel right where you are.
Near to me, all around me
You’re within me, you never leave me.

All my shame, all of my burdens
and self blame, take these away!
I give to you all I have carried
In your hope I am saved

I will grow in your growth
I will long in your longing
I will be where you are with me
In this practice, in this peace

Bbm Ab
Stay close, don’t feel far.
Ebm E E7
Help me feel right where you are.
Bbm Ab
Near to me, all around me
Ebm E E7
You’re within me, you never leave me.

Gb Abm
All my shame, all of my burdens
B Ebm
and self blame, take these away!
Gb Abm
I give to you all I have carried
B Ebm
In your hope I am saved

Bbm Ab
I will grow in your growth
Ebm E E7
I will long in your longing
Bbm Ab
I will be where you are with me
Ebm E E7
In this practice, in this peace

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from Resist and Restore Spring 2013, track released June 7, 2013
Produced and Engineered by Circle of Hope Audio Art
Music by John Mallinem
Lyrics-circle of hope audio art/Lauren Stichter

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Circle of Hope Audio Art Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Circle of Hope Audio Art is a mission team of Circle of Hope church in the Philadelphia and the metro area. We are working out a missional process of recording and distributing worship music as a tool for training and edification. We are celebrating all the creativity around us and are responding to a felt need for new worship material that is creative, theologically sound, and not commercial. ... more

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