“She Waits” | SONG of the week

This week's featured song is "She Waits," the title track of the Gray Havens' new 2018 album She Waits. "She" in the song is creation, and the song is based on the Romans 8 passage quoted at the end of this post.

Dressed in chains, now she waits,
lookin' back upon that day
when the dawn first held its gaze
upon the son and the daughter's face.

But strange now it seems,
like some dark and distant dream.
Still she hopes and longs to be
once again, and finally free.

So she waits . . .

She's seen empires come and go,
watched the kingdom's children grow—
sparks and embers far from home
born to shine and to behold.

'Cause on her chain is a lock, and the key
is the radiance she will see
from the light that's gonna be
cast from the sons and the daughters free.

So she waits . . .

She's a captive till she sees,
by the Morning Light redeemed,
sons and daughters.

She waits . . .

It's been a long time comin',
but she hopes and she hopes for it.

"I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body."

Romans 8:18-23