It’s kind of complicated, but sometimes it’s easier to love another
than to love myself
It’s not that I feel worthless, or that I’ve no self-esteem
It’s that I know my own shortcomings all too well
It’s funny, ‘cause if someone told me what I just told you
I’d quickly tell them, man there’s nothing you could ever say or do
That could take away God’s crazy, relentless love for you
And even though my head believes that that’s the truth…
My heart sometimes won’t listen to my best theology
It’s like the grace I love to sing about is meant for everyone but me
So Spirit, come and find me—I think I’m needing to relearn
That my place at your Table is not something I must earn (‘cause…)
Chorus: I am welcome
I am welcome
I am loved just as I am (repeat)
When I think about Jesus I’m amazed by all the ways
Jesus welcomed those folks thought were lost or wrong
You’d have to know his culture to catch all the subtle ways
Jesus told those who’d been excluded that they belonged
I wonder what it felt like to look into Jesus’ eyes
And to feel completely naked, yet to have no need to hide
Oh Christ I know you know me, and so I’m looking now at you
Let me see into your eyes and know its true (that…)
Chorus
Bridge: Some of us have skeletons in closets that often haunt us
And some have been put down so much we’re convinced
even God couldn’t want us
But here’s the bottom line—the deepest truth about our lives
Is revealed as we embrace these simple words…
Chorus: I am welcome, I am welcome, I am loved just as I am
I am welcome, you are welcome
We are loved just as we are. O Spirit burn this Truth into our hearts.
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