This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. — John 15:12-14 (ESV)
If I ever have the opportunity to plan an Easter service, it will end with this song. The whole entire congregation singing it together. There’s a good chance we exceed the 4:02 runtime of the album version, however. When a song is this perfect for the occasion — in tempo, in tone, in imagery, in paradigm — you want to dwell in that for a minute.
As a contained Easter liturgy, I love how Window is set up. The first verse calling us to worship,
The shackles are undone
The bullet’s quit the gun
The heat that’s in the sun
Will keep us when theres none
The rule has been disproved
The stone it has been moved
The grave is now a groove
All debts are removed
The second verse as dance,
Love makes strange enemies
Makes love where love may please
The soul and its striptease
Hate brought to its knees
The sky over our head
We can reach it from our bed
You let me in your heart
And out of my head
The third verse as confession,
I know I hurt you and I made you cry
Did everything but murder you and I
Our love left a window in the skies
And to love I rhapsodize
The final verse as a word of hope,
Oh can’t you see what love has done
To every broken heart
Oh can’t you see what love has done
For every heart that criesLove left a window in the skies
And to love I rhapsodize
You’d be hard pressed to find a better modern Easter Liturgy.
Renew and Restore
