AndyGridley

I wrote this for a vibey night of piano-centric music at an event called, “Deeper.” The piano was in the center of this big, old church building with cedar beams and candle light. Everyone was in a circle around the piano. The track references Isaiah and also to the gospel accounts of Jesus’ earthly ministry. In one of those accounts, a guy sits by the roadside and screams for Jesus to touch his eyes and allow him to see. Recently this track was dubbed the, “heartbeat of the album.”
 
Glory: Spoken Word
Andy Gridley
©2008 Mirrors and Moonbeams
 
In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the
train of his robe filled the temple. Hovering around him were mighty seraphim – literally
- angels, each with six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they
covered their feet, and with the remaining two they flew. In a great chorus they sang,
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty! The whole earth is filled with his glory!"
I saw the Lord seated on his throne and the train of his robe filled the temple with
GLORY.
Glory – what is glory?
In a smoked out, burned out, high tech, low touch
my right’s, jaded, wounded, info saturated
over marketed, under delivered
spiritually introverted
skeptic’s paradise
what is
glory?
 
I saw the Lord seated on his throne and the train of his robe filled the temple with glory.
Glory is:
A gold medal winner – a new athletic record – yes new feats of strength and discipline
– it’s the crowd cheering
No – flip on the t.v. - steroids were involved
Glory is:
A successful company – a raise, climbing the ladder, it’s a bigger office
No – the market is down – working weekends, working nights, working all the time –
the market is still down - we have to let you go
Glory is:
A new chip – a faster, better, more glorious product
No – it was built on the backs of children and it’s future rests in our trash heaps.
Glory is:
A cure – a medical breakthrough – a scientific inevitability - cheating death
But we still die
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Glory is:
Looking beautiful, plastic surgery, highlights, muscles, designer jeans
No – the surgery went wrong, more incisions, more bruises, more chemicals. Newer
clothes made by even younger slaves.
Glory is:
A new scholastic endeavor – a mining of new information, new discoveries, journals,
papers, conferences, podcasts…
No – In a sea of knowledge no belief. In a wave of discovery no transformation.
There is no glory – I see no glory here today.
Oh God! I cannot see!
 
I kneel next to the blind man
on that dusty, lonely road to Jericho.
I hear you – my heart pounds inside of me.
You are coming - Your footsteps shake the ground.
Yes,You are coming closer – I can smell the hot dust from your feet
Each quaking step - Closer and closer
I feel your breath now on my face
You are right here
I believe in God yes!
But even more I believe in your GLORY!
Son of David, touch my eyes! I want to see you GLORY!
It’s time God! It’s time! Show your Glory – for Your name’s sake – show your Glory!
Show your GLORY!