I’m Home
words & music by Stephen Bautista

Most of the time I feel like I don’t fit in
So often sensing I don’t belong
When you made me your child through grace and forgiveness
You said that this world is not my home
So here I am waiting and yearning
Knowing that while I’m still here

Chorus:
I’m home in your grace
I’m home in your love
Though I’m still in a place
Where I don’t belong
In your grace I’m home

Sometimes I wish you would speed up the timing
To the day when you’ll take us from here
But you’ve got your own time for when you’re arriving
With the assurance the day draws near
So here I’ll wait, trusting your wisdom
Knowing that until you come

Chorus:

Bridge:
We are just strangers here
We are not part of this world
But you said, “have no fear”
And you will always be with us
Until then end
So I’m home
I’m home


There
words & music by Stephen Bautista

How I love to gaze up to the heavens
Hope, wonder, and imagine
Painting images in my mind
Of the wondrous things that we”ll find
Beyond the gates
When we’re there

I can see a place where pain and suffering
Have all vanished and mean nothing
Words like tired, sick, and weary
Aren’t in our vocabulary
And we’re all whole
When we’re there

Chorus:
When we’re there we finally will know
The many wonders of our Heavn’ly Father’s home
When we’re there in that picture perfect place
We’ve been invited to by his mercy and his grace
It’s bound to be much more than we imagined
Beyond our dreams it will all be revealed when
We are there

I can see world where calm and stillness
Are the norm of our existence
No discord or clashing world views
Tense debates or points to argue
Only harmony
When we’re there

I see perfect love that never falters
Hate will have been fully conquered
No more wars or fruitless battles
Foolish fights or scores to settle
Only endless peace
When we’re there

Chorus:

Bridge:
And the first thing we will see
Is the holy throne of our God and King
And the first thing we will do
Is bow down to Him, worship
and sing
“Great is the “Lamb,” “Worthy is He”
When we’re there



To The Cross And Back
words & music by Stephen Bautista

So you think you’re just a face in the crowd
And no one notices when you wear that frown
You wonder if the Lord above sees the little guy
And if you even have a chance to catch his eye

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He knows your heart
Every care you have
And he’s there for you
As a matter of fact
He loves you, yes he loves you,
He loves you to the cross and back

So you think your just one voice crying out
Amidst a billion pleas from a billion mouths
You wonder if through all the noise God can ever hear
Just enough of your small voice to bend his ear

Chorus:

Instrumental:

Bridge:
There’s no grief he doesn’t know
No pain he hasn’t felt
Cause he bore the anguish of the world
When he took our nails



A God-Shaped Hole
words & music by Stephen Bautista

Here we are wandering just beyond the garden
Unaware that we still thirst for the nectar we’ve forgotten
We can sense a nagging void somewhere deep within us
And wrestle with the mystery of how or why we feel this
So here we crave and here we thirst

Chorus:
Cause there’s a God-shaped hole
In our broken souls
There’s a missing part
From our failing hearts
We try to fill it up
With the things we love
Still there’s a God-shaped hole
There’s a God-shaped hole

So we try to fill our cups in hopes to quell the craving
Even though we drink it up our thirst is not abating
Then we presume the answers must lie somewhere deep within us
But all we ever seem to find is a void that’s undiminished
So here we crave and here we thirst

Chorus:

Bridge:
Since the Garden we have tried everything we could
But Jesus is the only way to fill that void
And in the shape of a cross

Chorus:
He fills the God-shaped hole
In our broken souls
He’s the missing part
From our failing hearts
He pours into us
His redeeming love
And fills the God-shaped hole
The God-shaped hole
Jesus fills the
God-shaped hole


Taste and See
words & music by Stephen Bautista

You’ve held that bitter cup
Inside for far too long
And too often drink it up
Now joy is all but gone
But God’s holding out to you
A sweet remedy
And beckons you come taste and see

You’re drowning in the wrongs
Your past has poured on you
Your spirit’s so weighed down
You find it hard to move
But God says come be refreshed
In his healing spring
And beckons you come taste and see

Chorus:
Taste and see that the Lord is good
Taste and see what he’s promised you
New life with joy overflowing
Taste and see

Come taste the peace of mind
Come taste amazing grace
Come taste the sweetest life
That’s found in Jesus name
Drink from the loving hands
That heal and redeem
Come to him, taste and see

Chorus:

Bridge:
Taste and see that the Lord is good
Yes, the Lord is good
Sweet relief
Blessed are those who take refuge in him

So take that bitter cup
And leave it at the cross
Let Jesus fill you up
With his unfailing love

One Day Closer
words & music by Stephen Bautista

Every time I’m greeted by the morning sun
I can’t help but praise you for the new day that’s just begun
And one thing I have to smile about
With the advent of a new day
Is that the hands of time keep winding down
And you’ll soon be heading our way

Chorus:
It’s a sunrise closer to heaven
A sunset closer to you
And when the clock chimes up at the midnight hour
And says this day is through
It will be one day closer

Another day to look up, gaze at the blue
As I watch the sun move across it, I dream it’s you
But when the sun goes down in a colorful blaze
And gives way to a starry sky
I’ll still rest assured in the promise you made
That your return is drawing nigh

Chorus:

Bridge:
One day closer
Every day we’re one day closer
And one thing I have to smile about
With the advent of a new day
Is that the hands of time keep winding down
And you’ll soon be heading our way



Beauty Refined
words & music by Stephen Bautista

I saw you glance in the mirror today
The expression you made was quite clear
And I know you wonder if I still see
The same you as in those first years
So here from my heart is the truth you should know
There are things I can see now I couldn’t before

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The lines upon your face trace our years together
The silver in your hair show the storms we’ve weathered
And each year I’m so blessed to see with my eyes
A perfect example of beauty being refined

When I look at you now I see so much more
After all of the many years we’ve shared
I see the memories etched in over time
From the smiles and the tears we have shed
And even if I could roll back time somehow
I wouldn’t change anything from how you look now

Chorus:

Instrumental:

So here from my heart is the truth you should know
There are things I can see now I couldn’t before

Chorus:

And each year I’m so blessed to see with my eyes
A perfect example of beauty being refined


Trusting in Your Higher Ways
words & music by Stephen Bautista

Lord if I could ask a favor of you
To help alleviate my apprehensive point of view
Cause there’s so much that I don’t understand
within the grand unfolding of your mystifying plan
So I’m asking
Just one thing
That would help tremendously

Chorus:
Your ways are higher than the stars that shine above
Beyond the reach of anything I could think of
So Lord I’m praying for a faith that’s strong enough
That no matter if it’s crystal clear or shades of gray
I’m trusting in your higher ways

Part of me wants you to just plainly
Illuminate your plans and spell them out from A to Z
But there’s so little I would comprehend
And much of what you’d say would fly way out over my head
So I confess
You know best
But I still have one request

Chorus:

Bridge:
Teach me to trust you
With a faith strong enough to
Completely embrace
your higher ways

Instrumental
I confess
You know best
But I still have one request



Surrender
words & music by Stephen Bautista

Sometimes I’m finding myself asking why you
Allow the many painful things we go through
Although it seems to be a bold inquiry
When I am questioning what you do
I’ve got a lot of nerve when I think I can
Second guess the rationale of your plans
Who am I to say, I’ve got a better way
When I’m the one who’s made by your hands

Chorus:
I am the clay you are the potter
Your higher ways are so much higher
You’d think by now that I should know better
Surrender, surrender
I am the clay you are the potter
Your higher ways are so much higher
You’d think by now that I should know better
Surrender, surrender

Now I’ll admit sometimes it’s hard to swallow
But when you’re in the lead and I just follow
You keep me right on track, always got my back
And with me everywhere that I go
You’re plans were made before the earth’s foundation
To win for me the hope of my salvation
So what I need to do is fully trust in you
Without any reservation

Chorus:

Bridge:
…it all (surrender it all) to the one (surrender)
Who made me, saved me, gave me his all
I surrender it all