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Jesus Of The Scars by Graham Kendrick Featuring Natasha Petrovic on Violin. In partnership with mental wellbeing charity Kintsugi Hope.

Graham says 'It can be very hard sometimes to trust in God, especially when our wounds are deep. But whereas God sees the end from the beginning, we do not. We see as it were through semi-opaque glass. This is when the best thing we can do is to come to the cross.

'The Jesus of the Scars lyric is a journey from darkness to light, from despair to hope. I knew that the final verse had to bear the weight of the uniquely Christian hope to which the cross and the scars of Jesus point. I began to study and read.

'Sometimes a few poetic lines can help us reach out in faith towards those mysteries that lie beyond our comprehension, and where comprehension fails, contemplation, in this case of Christ’s scars, can help us to worship.'

https://grahamkendrick.co.uk/jesus-of-the-scars/

https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZL6qRzGpULT7m2a2X1csY?si=11afc465624f4624

When skies grow dark and all we see are shadows
The road too rough, the mountains rise too far
When pain runs deep, and wounds cry out for answers
We come to you, O Jesus of the Scars
What other god chose to be born in weakness
Knew toil and tears and felt our deepest woe?
Then to a cross, to bear our sin and sorrow
And so, we worship you O Jesus of the scars

When nights are long, and daylight weighs so heavy
Where can we go to ease the troubled mind
The Man of grief once crushed in dark Gethsemane
Says ‘do not fear’ I’ll take you by the hand
Our wounds cry out but yours will have the final word
And in your scars, we glimpse our story’s end
O glorious Day - death swallowed up in victory
For this we worship you O Jesus of the scars

When all is healed, and every might-have-been will be
And every sad, sad story comes untrue
When heaven’s love floods back through time and history
And all things lost and broken are made new
When clouds are gone, and earth’s illusions disappear
When faith is sight and hope reality
We’ll see your face and nothing else will matter
And there we’ll worship you O Jesus of the scars

Words by Graham Kendrick © 2023 Make Way Music. www.grahamkendrick.co.uk
Tune Londonderry Air. Public Domain
CCL number 7218323

Made in Partnership with Kintsugi Hope https://kintsugihope.com
Produced and Filmed by: Matt Cooper https://thisismattcooper.com

0:00 Intro
0:16 Verse 1
0:51 Chorus 1
1:40 Verse 2
2:15 Chorus 2
3:04 Verse 3
3:39 Chorus 3