Be a child.

This is an absolutely amazing song that touches my heart every time I hear it. It's on Jason Upton's album Remember. It's actually broken into three songs, but it is all one session. You really have to hear it to understand.

You're my everything
My everything
I can trust You
I can trust in You
I can trust in You
I can trust in You
You're waiting on me
You never leave me, oh God
You aren't gonna leave me
You never leave me, oh God

Trust, Jason Upton (Remember)
The album says that "childhood begins with trust. It's a natural gift given by God. And trust, in it's most developed state, leads to complete dependency. Trust isn't something we say to God. Trust is a way of being; it's the primary way of a child...and it must become the primary way of children of God."

I feel like a newborn
Baby
Tryin' to say Your name
Dada, dada, dada, dadaaaaa
Dada, dada, dada, dada, dadaaaaaaaaaaa......
I feel like a newborn baby
Just tryin' to say Your name
I can feel it coming
I can feel it coming
I can I can
I can hear it coming again
Finally, finally His kids can say it
Dada, dada, dada, dada, dadadaaaaaaa....
Dada, dada, da da, dada dadadaaaaaa.....
Cuz my lips and my tongue
Have been so trained by this world I live in to say so many things
And I want to cry out to You and really believe
That You hear me
Oh it's such a wonderful revelation
Such a wonderful revelation
Such
Such a needed education
Such a needed education
Such a wonderful revelation
Such a needed education
To learn the language
The language of Heaven
Dada, dada, dada, dada, dada....
Dada, dada, dada, dada, dada......
Dada, dada, dada, dada, dada.....
Don't be afraid to cry it out
Don't be afraid to cry out
Daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy,
Daddy....
[Daddy, I love You Daddy
That's it that's it just cry it out
[more cries]
Oh, it's a language!
I love you, Daddy
I love you, Daddy
I love you, Daddy
I love you, Daddy
I love you, Daddy
I love you, Daddy
I love you I love you I love you I love you Daddy
I love you, Daddy
I love you, Daddy
I love you, Daddy
[more cries]
[Oh, I love you, Daddy. I love you, Father. I love you Dad!]
[more and more cries]
The language of Heaven
The language
Of Heaven


First Language, Jason Upton (Remember)
"Using the words of Eugene Petersen in his book 'Praying the Psalms', First Language is the primary language of the Psalms. (If all theology in the world could be summarized into one word, I believe that word would be "Daddy"....accompanied by the belief that He hears us.) First Language is the 'language developmental stage' of a child. In this section you hear a baby cry before the song begins. I was reminded at that moment that baby Emma had been trying to say my name all that week. All she could get out of her mouth was the sound you hear me singing. Somehow I just knew she was trying to say my name. Then the day after this recording my wife, Rachel, told me that Emma said "Dada" for the first time. I believe this was more than a coincidence. (In many ways I feel like I am also learning to say 'Dada' for the first time.)

The language of heaven
Is the language of a child
Daddy, come get me
I want You to catch me
Again
Daddy, come get
Me
I want You to catch me again
Daddy, come get me
I want You
To catch me again
I tagged You, You're it!
I tagged You, You're it!
Daddy, play with me!
I want You to touch me again
Oh, the purity the purity
The purity
In me
Every time
You touch me
Touch me, again.


Lullaby, Jason Upton (Remember)
In Lullaby, I could not help thinking about how my son Samuel and I play this game. He says, 'Daddy, come get me", and then he waits for me to chase and catch him. Parents know that one of the greatest gifts to a child is the pure touch of a parent. Kids love to be touched and held.......and so do adults! I realized that night that God is indeed chasing me. I have tried my whole life to chase His Kingdom, hoping to be made righteous, only to find that nothing makes me holy (or whole) like the presence of my Father. Because of that I am trying to learn to slow down long enough for Him to catch me. God could cath me if He wanted; but He likes it when I wait for Him. 'Lullaby' was the thought that came to mind as I listened back to this."

That's what I wanted to let you guys see. I wish you could hear it, but I don't particularly think it would be legal for me to email it to all of you. Ask me about it sometime, and I'll play it for you if I have my laptop with me.

So...the entire point of this was essentially to live the simple life of a child. Be Daddy's little kid and rely entirely on Him. That's the way it's meant to be.