Abraham H. - Easter Sunday Lyrics

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Abraham H- Easter Sunday [ Official Visualizer]

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I’ve spent a lot of evenings sitting on this front porch, watching the sun dip behind the oaks, hands stiff from years of labor and holding onto things that didn't want to be held. You look at your own palms and you see the creases, the scars, the skin thinning like old parchment, and you start to wonder about the hands that held the nails.

Abraham H. sings, “Mercy was written when justice had failed,” and I find myself stopping there. It’s a strange thing, isn't it? We talk about justice like it’s a scoreboard, like if we just do enough right, the ledger balances out. But when you’ve lived long enough, you realize the ledger is always lopsided. You’ve hurt people you meant to love, and you’ve been wounded by people who were just as lost as you. Justice, in the way we usually mean it, would have left me empty-handed decades ago. But that line—it catches me. It suggests that mercy isn't just an afterthought; it’s what arrives when our own attempts at fairness fall into the dirt.

It reminds me of the woman caught in adultery, or maybe just the way Peter must have felt on the beach, looking at a fire he didn't build, waiting for a Master he’d denied. Justice says "you owe," but the cross says "I paid." It’s hard to wrap your head around that when you’re tired. When the lights go out in the house and the quiet gets heavy, you don't need a lecture on theology. You need to know that the bill isn't sitting on your nightstand anymore.

Then there’s that moment in the song about Mary hearing Him call her by name. “Nothing on earth would ever be the same.” I think about the folks I’ve buried, the friends who slipped out of this life while I was still trying to figure out how to be a better neighbor. There’s a specific kind of loneliness that comes with aging, where you start to feel like you’re the only one left who remembers certain things. You wonder if your name is still known, if the connections hold once the people are gone.

Scripture tells us He calls His own by name, and that He knows the very hairs on our heads—though mine have been gray for a long spell now. It’s a comfort that doesn't wear out. It’s not "young man's noise," that. It’s the kind of truth you need when the world gets noisy and confusing. If He could call Mary’s name in a garden thick with grief, then He can find me in the dark.

I don't have all the answers. I still struggle with why the suffering has to be so long, or why the healing doesn't always show up when we pray for it. But when I listen to Abraham H. sing about the stone being rolled away, I’m reminded that the ending isn't up to me. The victory, the "finished" work—that’s the anchor. My hands are too worn to hold onto anything else, and honestly, I’m grateful for that. It’s a relief to finally let go of the steering wheel.