Even Stones Would Change Their Mind
By Leo Downey 9/12
There’s a fight for you in heaven
And I’m on your side
I’d be black and blue forever
To kneel down beside God’s bride
I can’t argue the fate of angels
Or make people see the light
But if they could see how I love you
Even stones would change their mind
I have broken down doors to save you
I’ve come fighting for love inside
For the way you love your Creator
Even stones would change their mind
The way the sun lights God’s breath on the air
Do you hear my prayer
The way the sunlight colors your hair
God’s breath on the air
If they could see how I love you
Even stones would change their mind
Spanish Guitar Am, G/C,Fm, Em
Let Me Start It
Excerpts from “Wandering in the Spirit” Leo Downey 10/12
I’d fall in love with a clump a dust if I believed God wanted me to. I’d breathe life into it and wake it up, once you’re loved like that you’re saved forever, it’s love for who you are not what you do. That is how I love you. For you and I, the King of Love holds out His Kingdom, it’s coming. It’s rich for the right reasons. We’ll go there in this old Jaguar I think I drove when I was one with an ancestor, brown and earthy leather and wood and it smells good like you. You’ll giggle and laugh and listen to the soul of Earth. I’ll smell the distant smoke of a real good Cuban cigar. We’ll drive to an old stone and wood house with moss growing on it, there’s lichen on the handle, there’s a big burned out redwood waiting for a door and a window. Its roof is made of the ground and it sits on the edge of immense power, perched like God’s gargoyle, you’ll feel so at home you’ll never want to leave. But you will with me to love. I hear a muted trumpet with lips pursed to kiss. Would you make something warm and feed it to me while I write. We’ll spend the rest of the day in bed, in a prayer of the body, the same prayer over and over again with our heart in a holy sacrament. We’ll sleep and wake up at low tide with the fog rolling in while the seals bark and the waves shout. I’ll make the fire big while you curl up in my buffalo robe, but I won’t let you speak to me in English, I want to savor the Spanish on your tongue. When her feet touch Earth I feel an ecstasy. She’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen and she makes each one I’ve seen more beautiful. All I did was ask God if I could be His holy blessing for her and he gave her to me. He said, “I’ll even let you save her and be her hero if you’ll trust me with your life and step into the fight”
I said, “Let me start it”