Find Our Way To Love

Behind the Song

Written as a response to the horror of a world where hatred and violence seem to be winning, this song is a lament and a search for a different way. Perhaps there are no easy answers, but maybe it begins with us seeing that we are "us" - that we're all in this together on this tender, trembling earth. "When I hurt you, I hurt me." 

Inspired by Paul's letter in Romans 12,where he tells the rag-tag band of Jesus followers to "weep with those who weep," and by these powerful words by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from his letter from a Birmingham jail: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

Albums & Liturgies with this song

The Lyrics

1.
When I hurt you, I hurt me 
When I push you, I push me 
When I curse you, I curse me 
I weep with you, As you weep with me. 

2.
When I starve you, I starve me 
When I bomb you, I bomb me 
When I kill you, I kill me 
I die with you, as you die with me 

Chorus 
There is no “other” 
There’s only us 
On this trembling, tender earth. 
And all of heaven is here with us 
When we find our way to love, 
When we find our way to love. 

3.
When I hate you, I hate me 
When I lose you, I lose me 
When I find you, I find me 
I live with you, as you live with me. 

Chorus 

Coda 
God so loves the world. 
God so loves the world. 
God so loves every one of us 
So we can find our way to love, 

Words by Lenora Rand. 
Music by Gary Rand

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