All Shall Be Well

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I’ve spent the past week listening to the new Andrew Peterson CD, “The Far Country” and I’m totally digging it. I’m amazed at all depth of of hope that Andrew has hidden in many of his songs and lately they’ve really been speaking to me. There are many outside factors that effect us all on a daily basis. People in our work place that discourage us, a conflict with friends or family, hardship, stress; but in the end we know that our struggle is not against flesh and blood. But thankfully that is not all we can be confident of. This line keeps ringing in my mind:

And the night can be so long, so long
You think you’ll never get up again
But listen now, it’s a mighty cloud of
Witnesses around you—they say
“Hold on, just hold on
Hold on to the end
And all shall be well”

If you haven’t had a chance go snag Andrew’s new CD, I’d highly recommend you go do so now. If nothing else, make sure you make it out to see one of his shows soon. Until then, remember, ‘all shall be well.’

All Shall Be Well
from “The Far Country”
Words and music by Andrew Peterson

(Matthew 16:18, Matthew 5:16, Luke 15:20-24, Luke 15:4, Isaiah 40:8, Hebrews 12:1)

We touched down on the sound
At the top of the world
In the land of the midnight sun
Where the frozen river melts away
And breaks into a run
Into the sea, into the mighty waves
That waited just to see it
From a long way off that river thawed
And the tide ran out to meet it
“Welcome home, unfrozen river, welcome home”

‘Cause all shall be well, all shall be well
Break the chains of the gates of Hell
Still all manner of things will be well

See the quiet hearts of the children of
The children of this land
They have stayed alive in the day-long night
By the fires that warm their hands
There is a wilderness inside them
It is dark and thick and deep
And beside the fire at the heart of that wood
Is a precious missing sheep
So go on in, hold your torch, let it shine

‘Cause all shall be well, all shall be well
Break the chains of the gates of Hell
Still all manner of things will be well
All shall be well, all shall be well
The Word of God will never fail
And all manner of things will be well

There’s a light in the darkness
There’s an end to the night

I saw the sun go down on a frozen ocean
As the man in the moon was rising
And he rode the night all full and bright
With his face at the far horizon
And the night can be so long, so long
You think you’ll never get up again
But listen now, it’s a mighty cloud of
Witnesses around you—they say
“Hold on, just hold on
Hold on to the end
And all shall be well”