Michael Morgan: Pick up your bed
Two parallel stories, two parallel lives — urging each of us to pick up our own “bed” and . . . fly!
Check out the related Radical Acts:
TAKE up your bed and walk
HEAL the sick, cast out evil, raise the dead
LYRICS
“Mortal existence is a dream; mortal existence has no real entity, but saith ‘It is I.’ Spirit is the Ego which never dreams, but understands all things; which never errs, and is ever conscious; which never believes, but knows; which is never born and never dies. Spiritual man is the likeness of this Ego.” 1
Pick up your bed and walk
What did he find that day?
He never was what they thought of him
or wanted him to say.
Pick up your bed and walk
What did he find that day?
The Truth is in the morning light
And never shades of gray.
I want to tell you the story of a young man
From Nazareth where nothing good comes from.
Thought to be another finger on the right hand
Of religion, instead His Father’s kingdom
Was what he had to give,
Seen by the Word he lived,
In the good he did,
No degrees, just sent
Started carpenter then turned savior
only immanuel he ever knew was labor.
And cut, yes he did, away all our sin
In exchange for no change, just a cross and a crown when
One day they brought this day laborer a patient
While the doctors watched from the wings waiting
For “your sins are forgiven”
They made him into Satan!
To say such things with no approval or papers
But he knew what it was they really hated
Pride with perfection he was replacing
And the people watching could only give praise then
So Amen!
Pick up your bed and walk
What did he find that day?
He never was what they thought of him
or wanted him to say.
Pick up your bed and walk
What did he find that day?
The Truth is in the morning light
And never shades of gray.
I want to tell you the story of a woman
Her life judged by many as in sin
Servant to a servant coming from New England
No vote, no strength, no kids
Except for a son of whom she was stripped
into experiments with Medicine
No church or mesmerist,
Could cure her sufferin.
Then one icy night she took a fall like Eve
Woke up in a bed was told by an M.D.
You’ll never walk again, and then came a priest
Given power by man to say may God have mercy
But this lady wouldn’t accept it: disease and death
So she turned to the only friend that she had left
Opened up her Bible to Matthew verse 2 chapter 9
And with the Master’s words caught a glimpse of real life
Leaped up from her bed, out the door, how divine!
To finally be free, share the Science with mankind
Thank you, Mary Baker Eddy – you brought back the healing Christ.
Pick up your bed and walk
What did she find that day?
She never was what they thought of her
or wanted her to say.
Pick up your bed and walk
What did he find that day?
The Truth is in the Scripture’s light
And never shades of gray.
Musician’s website: http://itsaboutgood.bandcamp.com/
Notes:
- Science and Health, p. 250. ↩
Topics: Christ Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy, Music | Tags: Healing, Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy, Nazareth
Love love love this song. Shared it with my Sunday School class – they loved it too!
Well done! To actually tell the stories … the Word of Love works with repeatable results.
Rebate – you have an awesome name! :)
I love the concept of repeatable results, a Christian Science, behind both stories and still continuing now and forever.
All that’s left is to continue that work through our own relationship with the eternal Christ.
Thank you for your dedication to that work. I can feel it. .
:)
Hey, Michael, – you know I had never really connected, in such a vital way, the words “pick up your bed and walk”, which I read so very often, with the profound experience Mary Baker Eddy had and from which followed such incredible good. Thanks for helping to open my eyes to it!
How glorious! I am so happy that this song made the connection real to you. My greater hope is that it is shared with those who have never heard Mary Baker Eddy’s name and come to see how integral the Bible and Jesus’ ministry is to Christian healing today.
Let’s keep praying for a global acceptance of the spiritual illumination of Scripture!
Very interesting brother Michael
Hey Brother!
Yes, indeed. I was a little shocked when this song arrived, also. Not at all what I had in mind, but a timeless story of two of God’s expressions that together reveal man’s completeness MUST be told. Role-models for walking and for throwing off all preconceptions and judgments.
Ah, what work we have to do!