"As naked as newborn"

Free I had to lose all that I had In order to be free To lay the good down with the bad In order to find me And when all fell away I stood As naked as newborn But in that dawn I understood Blessed are those who mourn And when all fell away I was Revealed so I could be And I was not ashamed because The quintessential me Was liberated though it cost Me all and everything With what I won and what I lost Laid bare by suffering I left behind but could not hide The things I left without And having nothing left but pride To justify my doubt I realized that nothing is What I brought and will take And God made me between these his To let the maker make I lost the life I knew to find If I am to exist And am to bloom to be my mind Must open nor resist That to be fitted for the sky I must sit quietly Accept the gift to live and die And rise in victory Forgotten wings unfolding now To catch the wind again Will bear me though not knowing how Beyond remembered pain Which was all that I thought I had Except that it had me To find my reason going mad And through the dark to see I lost my way a little while Until I lost it all But seeing now and being smile A phoenix from my fall And God who made me makes me grow According to his grace That though I stumble even so I win the human race +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX