Jordan Mentz

You tell me that if you seek me…you will find me…
but so many times…we look in the wrong places…
only to find you calling out our names…so many times we get weary…
You want my entire heart…you tell me to seek you with all my heart…

Seek my face…and you will find me…
I need your heart…and I’ll make myself visible before you…
I will hem you in…before and after…
Just because you can’t see me right now…I have found you…

I can see you…between your money tears…
I can heal you…of your many hurts…
I want to hold you…and hold you in my hand…
My heart beats for you my child…I hold your heart in mine…

There are many times…when there are things…
that seem to come between us…and there are many times I find you…
I have looked for you my child…and you have found me…
You have been in my sight all along…You are safe with me…

Dedicated to Keturah Leigh Shipman

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:13

By his stripes…we are healed…
who is this man…that was cursed for our transgressions…
Took all my iniquities…and paid for them on the cross…
By your blood…you made me white…

I am healed by his stripes…
I am rescued by the cross…
I am standing in the light…
You are longing for me to come home…

Feeling abandoned…thinking about how you must’ve felt…
When you were alone…dying on the cross that should’ve been my own…
You took my death…just to give me life…
I want to remember…the life you offer of abundance…

You have given me life…when I took it from you…
You gave me freedom…You gave me forgiveness…
You offered to take my cross…and sacrifice your son for me…
I have been trying to understand…that which couldn’t be explained…

5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5 (King James Version)

I know that you dance…over me when my heart is glad…
You cry for me…when my soul is sad…
I don’t know how to contain…the joy it brings me to see you dance…
because of the love inside you…overflowing with joy…
My heart is so tender at times…sometimes it cries, and sometimes it dances…

But you Lord are dancing over me…you my God are dancing with me…
You have been my lover…since the beginning of time…
I look forward to the day when…you and I will dance together…
On the streets of gold…just me and my master…
Asking you the question…what brings your heart joy…

You answer me…by saying it is spending time with you…
When you can dance in freedom…because you have found me…
Its been so hard…to see you cry today…
To hear you say…I just want you to go away…
But I was hoping…that my love would bring you back…

You ran away from me…and had forgotten all I was…
I came running toward you…while you were in the distance…
I wanted to tap you on the shoulder…and give you a big hug…
but today…you pushed me aside…
I strayed away…but I know your arms are open wide…

Dedicated to Casi Rainey based on a dance she did to over and over at Student Venture, by three days grace.

I’ve been thinkin’ a lot lately…about the way things could’ve been between us…
I want to learn to let it go…move on with life and roll with the punches…
I was wanting to tell you…how much you hurt me…but I didn’t have the nerve til now…
There was never anything between us…and I don’t think there could ever be…

What is done is done…lets try to move on with life…
I wanted someone to love me…but I found my heart broken…
I placed my hand in yours…for the first and the last time…
I really wish it didn’t have to end…tryin’ to figure out how it began…

I’ve been thinking what could’ve been…The times do you remember when…
We used to have fun together…as a couple, but Christ wasn’t the center…
So what was I thinkin’…that it will work out, based on what I wanted…
I am not sorry that it happened…but sorry it had to hurt…

There are so many emotions…woven deep into my soul…
Because I don’t want anything between us…but it seems like you still want things to happen…
Crying because I say I can’t hang out tonight…I wanted to, but I knew it was better if I didn’t…
I’ve been busy…and its not because I don’t like you, but its because I have been moving on…

A song inspired by my relationship with a girl, that didn’t work out and learning to move on.

As I look to the heavens…watching the fireworks produce explosions…
I try to imagine…what the world was like before you spoke it to be…
With every touch of color…another aspect of your glory revealed…
It’s hard for me to understand…how you can be such an artist…
then turn something small…into a beautiful masterpiece…
I wanted to reach out to the skies…and give you the lies…
People choose to believe…about the formation of the world…
Some say that it was the big bang…and even though I don’t agree…
How can I show them…the beauty in your words…
The cross a perfect representation…of what it means to love…
I try to figure out how do things apply to me…How do people not see…
With each burst of light…I thought to myself…
Could tonight be the night…that I meet my creator…
So many times…we forget to look up…
Many instances we look up to the heavens…and forget about the people around us…
Trying to live the life you have for us…but forgetting to acknowledge the reason…
Behind the explosions in our lives…times when you want to work in our lives…
Take a loud noise…and turn it into something beautiful…

Inspired by the fireworks I saw at Carmel Fest