Radically Happy

There’s two easy ways
(So it seems to me)
To pretend to live
With integrity

One’s to ignore
What others may think
Act brutally honest
And drive them to drink

The other is always
To first read the crowd
Predict their responses
‘Fore speaking aloud

But if Christ is Lord
I need a third way
So that His mandate
I truly obey

To speak truth in love
Is not just an act
But daring to delve
Into deeper fact

For my shallow truth
Is really half-lie
Unless it reveals
That “Christ” is in “I”

I must see the truth
You hold on so dear
And then bear a cross
To free you from fear

This road’s far from easy
But don’t curse your fate
Embracing hard true’s how
Our Savior we date!

Today I will lose — and find! — my truth
In the truth of my Savior’s love