A song about my prodigal journey.

Like the children of Israel, we who have believed on Jesus have become exiled in a land of self-righteousness. He must allow us to see our bondage to law, our exile from the land of rest, before He comes to us and calls us out of Babylon.

This song was written during the period God was taking me through that long time of oppression.I was not used to the feeling of distance from God, which I often felt during this time.

I had just recently been told of the destruction coming to the country of my birth (the USA) and I went through such a deep sort of mourning. It was very heavy. I just kept looking around me at all the people I knew, and loved, and didn't know, but still felt comradeship with, and was terribly grief-stricken. Eventually I came to see this terrible thing in the context of God’s larger plan of love, and could let go, but I have never had such an ordeal of sorrow, and mourning as that. If you hear what I'm saying in all of this, I would recommend you turn to God with all of your heart. Make it the only priority of your life. There is not much time.

This song is fairly obvious in its meaning. I just want to say it was something God actually said to me (2008). I went through several months of very little productivity, and you know how that feels. In this place of non-productivity, he managed to get my full attention and thus be able to say some things to me that my heart was unknowingly resistant to receiving from him. God is faithful!

This song is me crying out to Jesus, my love, for his intimate embrace once more. If you've ever felt the presence of Jesus, felt him embrace you, you will know what it means to long for closeness with him.

God, and Satan both raise up their servants, outside the camp (outside of our collective conventions, and values, and comfort).

God has a way of helping our sujective, task-oriented minds to see that it alwys comes down to love.

This song was written after God gave me a dream, and a prphecy(upon waking from the dream), and then confirmed it to me by having my cousin Deb Cameron call me that day with the statement that God has been having her read Ezekiel 15, 16 , and that it is about the religious establishment (Jerusalem). I will include the dream/prophecy here- Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1/11/2006 11:10:32 PM I fell asleep for a short time and dreamt that a flood flooded, swept over, all of Europe, and with such speed it was almost instantaneously covered. It was covered before anything could even be thought of being done on behalf of Europe. The flood was total. I awoke with a start after dreaming this, and asked God what He was trying to say to me through the dream. I was tired, and said to God; if you wish me to understand something of this dream then you will have to deal with my sleepiness. The dream troubled me. Immediately I saw a vivid mental picture of two Blocks (or powers) of absolute evil blackness consume Europe in an instant. I then saw the United States had a sink trap over it (the “trap” was one of those wire mesh thingys you put in your sink to catch hair etc.). I asked God what this meant, and I suddenly knew that it was God separating the sheep from the goats in the U.S.A. Those who were separated out were those who God was saving from destruction. It occurred to my mind, like a pronouncement from God, that; there are very few. I knew the U.S. A. was going to go down the drain, that is, be totally destroyed. Europe would be overtaken by the Anti-Christ, who would see to the destruction of the U.S. A. Those God saved out of the U.S.A. would be sent throughout the world to preach the gospel of the kingdom of God. I knew Jonna was one who was going to be saved. The means of salvation was God raising her up. I then remembered Debbie Cameron telling me earlier in the day she had heard a word from God in her sleep about the destruction of the religious establishment, symbolized as Jerusalem in Ezekiel 15 & 16.