This Is The Moment Lyrics
Carolyn Arends
I don't know your story, I don't even know your name
But there's something I can tell you just the same
Wherever you are going and whatever's gone before
This is the moment you've been waiting for
This is the moment you've been waiting for
I don't pretend to know what it's like walking in your shoes
But I know your path will be the one you chose
So whatever has been keeping you from walking through that door
This is the moment you've been waiting for
This is the moment you've been waiting for
Take a deep breath, take the first step
Take the bull by the horns
If you're still breathing then this moment is yours
But time won't stop for no one, we both know that that's a fact
And once a day is done it don't come back
So each and every second is too precious to ignore
This is the moment you've been waiting for
This is the moment you've been waiting for
Take a deep breath, take the first step
Take the bull by the horns
If you're still breathing then this moment is yours
There's a reason you were born
And you don't have to wait for all the planets to align
No, heaven is already on your side
And it'll give you what you need now
Nothing less and nothing more
This is the moment you've been waiting for
This is the moment you've been waiting for
This is the moment you've been waiting for
This is the moment you've been waiting for
C 2004 Songs of Peer, Ltd / Mr. Marley's Music (ASCAP)
About the Song
I was recently asked to fly to Malibu to play Pepperdine University's Convocation -- the students' first chapel of the year. While I was packing the night before, I started thinking about my first days of school, how much I loved buying new school supplies (even for my Senior Year of college), how the year was as fresh and clean and full-of-promise as all those blank pages of loose-leaf paper. My nostalgia made me excited for those Pepperdine students and I felt honored to be addressing them at one of the watershed times in their lives.
The situation seemed to warrant a song. As I started mulling potential lyrics over, a happy thing dawned on me. In the Kingdom of God, the Father's tireless grace makes every day a fresh sheet of paper. When Jesus gave us a picture of the Father in his story of the Prodigal Son, he showed us a God who scans the horizon for the slightest indication that we are turning towards Him, a God ever at the ready to run to us and embrace us and celebrate our homecoming. There's no need to wait for a special set of circumstances, there's no pre-requisite that we have our ducks in a row. Any moment we turn to our Heavenly Father can be the watershed moment we've been waiting for.
I started to hammer out the song (sitting on my suitcase, guitar in hand) but my kids were afoot and rightly wanting my attention. So ... I got them some pots and pans and said "Let Mommy sing a little, and every time I shout 'hey!' you can jam along". They were ready and willing and the "hey" sections stuck ...
The track features one of two appearances on the album of banjo genius Jason Homey (on loan from the Clumsy Lovers, the band which also features my brother and sister-in-law). The tune is one of my more bluegrass-influenced efforts (all those years of listening to Alison Krauss) and I particularly like [associate producer] Roy Salmond's "body percussion" - hand, knee and elbow slaps featured throughout.
