Chords for Cheri Keaggy-So I Can Tell (Long Promo)

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_ I believe that through a lot of trial in my [C] life and hardship [F] that we all face, [Cm] that really
[C] God has given me some gold.
[D] _ [Ab] And when he gives you some [F] gold, _ you have [C] a responsibility to share it.
And I feel like this is my season of pouring out this gold and this record so [F] I can tell
is that phrase.
I have [Am] heard the truth so I can [C] tell.
And now bring encouragement to [Gb] others. _ _
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_ Romans 15, [Abm] 13 is really, I think of it as a benediction.
Of course, it's right out of scripture so I can't take much credit.
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But it's, may the God of hope fill you with all [E] joy and peace as you trust in him so that
you may [B] know and overflow with hope by the [E] power of the Holy Spirit.
[Gb] I love [B] including [E] scripture in my music because [Bbm] to me it gives it [B] _ _ _
[E] validity.
[Ebm] It's [B] not just my [E] idea or my whim or how I [Gb] was feeling that day.
It is truth.
It's [B] God's truth and it stands.
[Ebm] So that's going to be [B] the album closer, Romans [E] 15, 13.
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There was a long season where I was in kind of a [G] survival mode.
And this _ [C] _ record is the first record [Cm] that I've recorded after _ _ [G] divorce, from [Bm] marriage to my
high school sweetheart.
It's a testimony to [Db] God's [Dm] faithfulness because I did go through a long season [G]
of _ [Abm] not writing
at [Em] all because I was just [G] surviving.
_ But then _ God [B] prompted me to sit [G] down at the piano once more.
[Db] This was after [Am] the divorce and after I'd moved from one house to another [Eb] and was [Cm] somewhat
_ exhaling.
[G] And so [B] all I had to do was just pour [Gb] through [G] my journals and [E] see the little notes that
I take [C] throughout my life.
And [Ab] then it [Cm] was just, I don't know how you would describe it, just _ [G] _
[D] one song after another
[G] that flowed fairly easily.
[Am] And that's best, you know, [C] when it flows fairly easily.
So these songs, I [Cm] believe these songs are, _ [C] _ I believe [Gbm] this record, that God, with this
[Am] record that God is [Eb] poised to bring beauty from ashes.
_ _ [Db] Lugging in the [Bbm] heaviest burden, _ _ I [Ab] went to temple one [Db] night.
_ _ And if you saw the heart [Bbm] that was hurting, _ _ [Gb] the bullet [Ab] was probably mine.
[Db] The inspiration for the song Air, Food and Water came when I was [Bb] really [Bbm] at one of my darkest points.
I was in the [Ab] season where I didn't know, was God going to miraculously [Db] heal my marriage?
[Eb] I had believed and hoped and prayed for so long [Ab] that he would.
I didn't know, [Db] would I be single for the rest of my life, for [Bb] part two of my life?
I didn't [Gb] know if [Db] God would ever [Gb] bring someone else in my life.
[Db] Would I even be open to that when I had [Ebm]
only known my husband from when we were [Abm] early high school?
[Db] I didn't know yet where I was going to live.
Our house was [Bbm] on the market.
_ There were so [Gb] many unknowns.
[Db] And I was very afraid and overwhelmed.
My daughter was graduating [Eb] high school.
My son was getting married.
In [Gb] about a six month period, [Ab] there was the divorce, [Db] the graduation, the wedding.
My grandmother died [Gb] and then my grandfather died.
I [Db] moved and just [Ab] all these things.
It was [Gb] just like whirling.
I [Db] drug myself into church one night.
I had actually skipped that Sunday morning _ because I was so [Eb] heavy and broken.
[Abm] I went that Sunday night [Abm] and the [Db] pastor preached a sermon about the three things [Bbm] we need to survive.
I'll never [Gb] forget, he talked about air, food and God's presence.
_ _ Even though I was in the [Eb] depths of despair, [Gb] that was a turning point for me because I
[Db] realized, as he shared, that really I didn't know [Bbm] all these things over here, but I knew
[Db] that I had everything I needed in Christ and that somehow he saw me [Ab] and that I was going
to be okay.
And so, [Bbm] Air, Food and Water is this fun little snappy [Eb] song with a ukulele and a harmonica
and all this.
_ _ And it's, I think, just an example of how he can truly turn mourning into [Eb] dancing.
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_ _ _ _ [Ebm] I was a part of a [E] women's Bible study on Wednesday mornings this [Eb] fall.
And there's this time at the beginning where we gather in our small group [Bb] tables and we
share prayer requests and we pray and then we [F] do our study.
And I remember one week in particular, there was a woman who, [C] at the very end, after the
designated prayer [Bb] time, at the very end, she [Eb] spoke up because her heart was heavy,
that she was [Bb] widowed, she had lost her husband very suddenly.
So she, just at the end, just verbalized this prayer request.
And so I said, well, let's pray right now.
[Eb] And I remember asking that the God of comfort would come and comfort her and the family
during this time.
And so [Ab] sometime later, that phrase just turned in my mind, [Eb] Oh God of comfort, comfort me,
[Ab] comfort her.
And that was sort of the inspiration point for the song because there will be one day
when there will be no more tears to wipe [Eb] away again, borrowing from scripture.
[Bb] So that's the hope of the believer who is suffering.
We're [F] called to participate in the sufferings of [Gm] Christ.
The song talks about [Eb] suffering and grief, but it also [Bb] talks about _ _ _ [F] going home.
And that thrills [Gm] me. _
There will [Eb] be one day when there [Bb] will be no more [F] tears to wipe [Gm] away.
_ There will be [Eb] one day when [Bb] there will be no [F] more day to navigate.
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