Music has a way of speaking to my heart that stays with me long past the song is over. No recording has ever lifted my spirit as Crowder’s “Come As You Are” from his Neon Steeple album. I first heard Crowder sing this song on Good Friday with thousands of people standing out in the cold stormy night for hours as these words flowed and healed.

Next time you have had enough, or the job has been too hard, when you're ready to cry out, "Have mercy, Lord!," may these words from Crowder's song bring hope and healing:

So lay down your burdens, Lay down your shame,
All who are broken. Lift up your face.
Oh wanderer come home, You’re not too far.
So lay down your hurt, Lay down your heart.
Come as you are. [...]
There’s joy for the morning, Oh sinner be still,
Earth has no sorrow that heaven can’t heal,
Earth has no sorrow that heaven can’t heal.

By Natalie Nicholas Adam from D365