Skin and Wind is a Mind Bend

The metaphor and simile of wind and water have been front and center for the poetic/artistic mind since the spark of time and human reflection. The wind you cannot see, only the effect of. The water, tasteless in purity, essential to all of life. Linear in movement, infinite in function.

And then there is skin. A sheath of magic holding us together, bearing the consequence of sun, wind, and water, telling the story of our way with the world and the world with us. Skin as mundane, myth, and revelation. Skin as the beloved community.

There's skin in arousal and empathy, warmth and generosity, and the faith-forming mystery of an idea like Emmanuel, God With Us, the God of skin. God standing before us, behind us, beside us left and right, above, and below.

This skin-God eats, sleeps, and cries history-making tears. The skin-God comes to earth to reveal essential, transformative, grace-centric plans for eternal community. Everything with skin is invited to dwell within this new and unusual hometown.

Put skin together with wind, and all manner of Spirit, mystery, and motion come clean. And if you dare feel it, in part or total, there is a mind bend on offer. The skin God has a name. The untitled wind of Spirit has a name. The two, a family with the One whom some call Abba, Father, supreme over stardust and genome.

If life is seeing where the water goes when it goes, then it’s worth asking what my own flow knows about getting wet. For I am convinced there is a dispensation from every corner of the world, a pounding storm of rightness rain and well-spoken wind.

Where's the sunup, sundown in all of this? Oh it’s there. I come from a place where the summer sun stays aloft till almost nine. What time is it now?

It is time to listen, time to follow, time to not tread lightly. Every night we pray and walk the floor. In a vision, we see a hammer and a helping hand, to break the chain, heal the land, and for rain and sun upon good seed, every one of them a hope, every one of them a need.

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SKIN AND WIND IS A MIND BEND LYRICS:

Let’s see where the water goes, what the wind knows.

Let’s see where the water goes

What the flow knows about getting wet

A rainstorm of righteousness

Is dripping from the ceiling, yet

Do not fix that leak

It’s all we have to quench the thirst

Of the need to be known

The need to be heard

Sunshine is a fine wine

When the heart is full and beautiful

But hey now, not every soul on earth

Knows the cloudless sky

I say to myself, don’t you dare ever think

What you see will always be

As it is even now in the summer of ‘20

When you’ve still got more than plenty

Time to listen, time to follow

Time to not tread lightly, every night we

Pray and walk the floor

In a vision we see

A hammer and a helping hand

To break the chain, heal the land

And for rain and sun upon good seed

Every one of them a hope

Every one of them a need

There is a wind an untitled wind

A friend to every color of skin

A life-giving hurricane

A just and holy rain

Let’s see where the water goes

What the wind knows

I have lived to see every dream

I ever had when young and full of promise

No clever scheme, no sleight of hand

No well thought out plan

Grace you say, okay

But skin and wind is a mind-bend

Skin and wind is a mind bend

Skin and wind is a mind bend

Skin and wind is a mind bend

Truth and consequence

A boxer in the ring

A prophet and poet

A fundamental thing

History and mystery

A woman at the well

A stranger, no danger

Now go, this time you can tell