Preacher on the Jordan
The following is a lyric written in 1989. The words were later put to music and used in a play based on the life of Christ. For four years I played John the Baptist in this play and sang this song while enacting the baptism. On the banks of the Jordan, repentant children. So many coming toward me. Their shouts to save them, so uncontrolled, with such a desire to be cleansed by the sea. They gather in the sand. Thousands of questions about salvation and God's plan. Some with their piousness disguising them, but He who sends His son sees through you man. Your Messiah is coming. Repent for the day is near. He shall come to you with peace to dispel all your fear. Plague of threatened Pharisees, Abraham adopted sons, standing in your aura alone pompous and arrogant. My patience tried, God could make believers out of these very stones. Remember I am not he, I wear sandals soiled. His I am not worthy to tie. His face you shall know. My Isr...