one thing that matters

When It's All Been Said And Done
by Don Moen

When it's all been said and done
There is just one thing that matters
Did I do my best to live for truth?
Did I live my life for you?

When it's all been said and done
All my treasures will mean nothing
Only what I have done
For love's rewards
Will stand the test of time

Lord, your mercy is so great
That you look beyond our weakness
That you found purest gold in miry clay
Turning sinners into saints

I will always sing your praise
Here on earth and in heaven after
For you've joined me at my true home
When it's all been said and done
You're my life when life is gone...

Through

the Gaither Vocal Band

When I saw what laid before me
“Lord,” I cried, what will you do?

I thought He would just remove it

But He gently led me through

Without fire there’s no refining

Without pain no relief

Without flood there’s no rescue

Without testing no belief

Through the fire

Through the flood

Through the water

Through the blood

Through the dry and barren places

Through life’s dense and maddening mazes

Through the pain

And through the glory

Through we’ll always tell the story

Of a God whose power and mercy

Will not fail to take us through

Where I'm at...

Little Is Much
by downhere

What is the measure of a life well lived
If all I can offer seems too small to give
This is a song for the weaker, the poorer
And so-called failures

Little is much when God's in it
And no one can fathom the plans He holds
Little is much when God's in it
He changes the world with the seeds we sow
Little is much, little is much

Who feels tired and under-qualified
Who feels deserted, and hung out to dry
This is a song for the broken, the beat-up
And so-called losers

Consider a Kingdom in the smallest seed
Consider that giants fall to stones and slings
Consider a child in a manger
Consider the story isn't over
What can be done with what you still have

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"Broken Vessel"
by Broken Vessels

I come before You Lord,
Desperate and unclean
I need You to purge me with Your blood
I want to be a vessel
A body You can use
Set apart for Your good works

'Cuz I am broken
But I'm not afraid
I will serve You
Until my dying day

Take all of me
I lay down my life
Take all of me
'Til You're satisfied

I am a vessel
of clay in Your hand
Mold me Lord as you desire
Burn away each blemish and impurity in me
With Your refining fire

Here I am Lord
I giving all of me

I'm a broken vessel
Take all of me
I'm a broken vessel
Giving You all of me
I'm a broken vessel
I know that You're all that I need

Our Hope Endures

You would think only so much can go wrong
Calamity only strikes once
And you assume that this one has suffered her share
Life will be kinder from here

Sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear
But our hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our hope is unchanged

How do we comprehend peace within pain
Our joy at a good man's wake
Walk a mile with a woman whose body is torn
With illness but she marches on

Sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear
But our hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our hope is unchanged

Emanuel, God is with us
El Shaddai, all sufficient
Emanuel, God is with us
El Shaddai, all sufficient
Emanuel, God is with us
El Shaddai, all sufficient

We never walk alone
This is our hope
Our hope endures, the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
let the earth quake
let the earth quake
let the earth quake
Our hope is unchanged