Hi ~

In Untwisting Scriptures that were used to tie you up, gag you, and tangle your mind: Book 2 Patriarchy and Authority, I quoted a song at the end of chapter 5.

That's the chapter entitled “To Those in ‘Biblical Patriarchy’: Return to God.”

At the end of that chapter, I quoted the words of a song my daughter wrote, “Return to the Waters.” It’s based on Jeremiah 2:12-13, a message from God to His Old Covenant people Israel. 

These words can also be a call to the hearts of those in our day who have turned away from God to something or someone else. That was my emphasis in Chapter 5.

I had forgotten that an informal recording of my daughter singing the song was and still is available online. But recently when I was scrolling through her old songs with my granddaughter, I came across it.

I think hearing it could help the words to that song come alive for you. Here it is. (If you don't have a Facebook account, you can click the "X" to get past the signup box and listen to the video.)

Here are the lyrics again, from Untwisting Scriptures 2: Patriarchy and Authority:

There’s a spring of living water,

As fresh as love, as clear as truth, and never bitter.

And some have tasted of that water

And decided they’d rather hew themselves a cistern.

And the cistern—it is broken,

And the people they are choking

In the mud at the bottom of their hole.

Return, oh return to the water!

Return and let your soul be satisfied.

Return, oh return to your lover!

Then in Him will be your glory forever.

And the spring is still beside them

More alive than life itself and strong as thunder.

But they won’t turn,

Though their tongues are dry and swollen.

Even the heavens, they look down on them and wonder.

They’re afraid and horrified

That the people have despised

The light that was sparkling before them.

Return, oh return to the water!

Return and let your soul be satisfied.

Return oh return to your lover!

Then in Him will be your glory forever.

Then in Him will be your glory forever.

Longing with you that many will find the springs of living water,

Rebecca

Untwisting Scriptures at heresthejoy.com

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Trauma-informed book coach at Rebecca Davis WordWorking

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