Back in March of this year had the honor and privilege of flying home to Atlanta for the wedding of my pastor Connie to her partner, Karen. It is always good to be back in Atlanta and my trip was made even more special by sharing in their special day.
As a wedding gift I wrote a song for the two of them called Witness to My Life. This marks only my second "Wedding"-style song, the first being Let Me Walk Beside You which wrote (and sang with music written by Dennis Lewallen) for my brother's wedding.
After experiencing such an incredibly beautiful, moving ceremony - I scrapped the song with a promise to revisited it. A couple weeks ago I sat down with the lyrics and these photos from the ceremony and started again.
With their permission, I'm sharing it here.
Witness to My Life
For Connie & Karen
3/14/09, 3/19/09 8/11/09
v1
This is the story
Of you and me
One and one
Upheld by many
The writing of our history
Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses
Grounded in the grace of ages
We have found what we will name as True
I have found love
I have found you
Chorus
Be a witness to my love
Be a witness to my life
As my love
As my life
In a million moments
Threaded through thousands of days
Every season beautiful
Every season difficult
Stand beside me
And I beside you
v2
This testimony
Of you and me
Reaches beyond here
For all to see
Honoring Love’s mystery
Above all in this life it’s you I promise to treasure
Our love will be how we measure
This love we know to be pure, worthy and true
I have found love
I have found you
Chorus
Bridge
So for all of days
Be a witness to my life
As my lover, friend and wife
As a mirror of the best and worst in me
Bind us together
To set us free
