Maybe Just Maybe Lyrics by Becky Higg

It comes and it goes

It comes and it goes, that hit by a truck feeling, then it passes
Knocks you off your feet, knocks the breath out of your lungs
Knocks your confidence around, knocks your mind unsound
But I’ve found that it comes and it goes

Days when I forget who I am, days when my heart seems like a tangled mess
Days when it takes all the strength I have just to get out of bed and showered and dressed
When my spirit fails, when i feel tired and old
From that place, I lift up my soul

And so, this is my song, this is the hope I’m clinging on to
I know sorrow may come, but it moves on
Maybe leaving you bruised, but a little stronger

It comes and it goes and it shows me that I’m made of stronger stuff
So let the night anguish my soul, and let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing Love
When my spirit fails, when I feel tired and old
From that place, I lift up my soul

Hold me tight

How lovely You are, when I’m sad You scoop me in Your arms
And even when I’m letting go You’re holding on, You’re holding on

So hold me tight…

Well the dark clouds are all around, and I am not in my right mind
Oh I am losing my grip now, but You’re holding on, You’re holding on

So hold me tight…

Well it used to be that that place was my home
When I walked through the door I’d stay for days and days and days
Darkness sucking life from my soul, the bleakness getting in and running through my very veins

Oh but somewhere along the lines just a little bit of light shone through
Just enough for me to see what had been there all the time, and to believe it might be true
That I don’t have to do this anymore, I don’t have to stay locked up this way
I can walk back through that open door, I can feel the freshness of freedom on my face
Maybe just maybe i can be brave, maybe just maybe I have what it takes…

I choose this

I’m choosing this freedom with every breath
An important part of my heart has been locked up
And now You are saying it is time
And I'm scared, but i say yes, i say yes

You’re leading me out into a wide open space
And there are tears in Your eyes and a smile on Your face
And I find myself believing You
When You tell me i am beautiful, i am beautiful

And I choose this, no matter what it takes
I choose this, I choose this wide open space
If You’d have asked me before the world began
There’d have been no hesitation
Oh I choose this

I choose this with every inch of my heart
How could I turn back when You’ve brought me so far?
And right now it hurts and right now it’s hard
And I need You and I love You and i love You

And whenever I’m tempted to lock myself up
I’ll remember the words in this song
I’ll remember that Your love is strong enough
To see me through, to see me through

Who'd have thought?

Who’d have thought it was in the choosing to let go that this fighting strength would grow in my soul?
And who’d have guessed that this weak and fragile heart could in fact be a well, be a well?
And who could have perceived it at the time, that the harm that was intended to destroy me
Was in fact a tenderhearted part of Your design
To bring me full into Your Love, to bring Your Love full into me.

So let my places of great weakness be Your glory, Jesus let me see You here within
And let the spaces hollowed out here by my heartache become a deep well for Your life to pour in,
and be drawn out.

Who’d have thought that You would choose these fragile lives, each one to be a window to Your soul?
Each one reflecting different shades of Your loveliness, each one showing the other more of who You are
Each life shaped and crafted just to measure, Immanuel
Fragile jars of clay all filled up with treasure
Bringing us full into Your love, bringing Your love full into us

So let our places of great weakness be Your glory, Jesus let us see You here within
And let the spaces hollowed out here by our heartache become a deep well for Your life to pour in

Oh, my life is formed by Your tender mercy
You know my frame and You know my frailty
You know what strengthens, You know what breaks me
And I know i am safe in Your care

Down the years

All the stuff we’ve talked about, all the stuff we’ve cried about
Oh all the stuff we’ve shared down the years, down the years
All of the mistakes we’ve made, all the courage we’ve displayed
Oh all the stuff we’ve shared downt he years, down the years

Oh the solidarity of sharing this life with other people who are fragile like me
You’re giving strength to me
Just by knowing that you’re keeping going
Makes me feel that i can keep going too

All the brokenheartedness, all the rawness, all the mess
All the ‘i've got nothing left’ down the years, down the years
All the days of summer breeze, all the tiny victories
The ways that you’ve believed in me down the years, down the years

This is that chance to be truly brave
This is losing your life to save it
This is learning to love and to trust
And to really live this stuff like it’s real, like it's real

And this is the becoming whole
And the growing mighty in your soul
We’ll see this love story unfold
Down the years, down the years, down the years

Like the dawn

Like the dawn, like the glorious early morning
Like the warmth after a long cold night
Like the touch of someone who loves you dearly
Like the dawn comes your healing

So hold on, hold on my friend, hold on
Even though the pounding in your heart says
‘turn back, you'll never make it’
Still hold on
And look up, look up my friend, look up
Oh I can see the sorrow there in your eyes
But as certain as the sunrise
Is this life in you, and a promise to see you through

Let me remind you of tenderness in the desertplace
Of restoring her fruitfulness
Of the very place of trouble being made a door of Hope
Like in the early days, she’ll sing songs of joy and freedom
And like the dawn comes her healing

And my Love

And my Love says He’ll gather me up from all the places I’ve been scattered
Says He’ll go out and find everything that I’ve lost and bring it back to me, and bring it back.