I Search For You On The Horizon

February 20

This is the eigth track off Steven Curtis Chapman's new album, Beauty Will Rise. It is about the day that Maria Sue (the youngest Chapman involved in the car accident that took her life) became a Christian, just one month before she went to be with Jesus. I think it's one of the most personal songs off the album talking about how Steven and his wife, Mary Beth, explained to her about Jesus and Heaven.

February 20
by Steven Curtis Chapman

February 20, 2008
On the floor with her mom
Putting her shoes on
Getting ready for another day

February 20
She says, "Mom, is it true
Does God really have a big, big house
Does it really have a lot of rooms?"
She said, "I really, really wanna go there."
So I said, "Why don't we just talk to Him?"
And that's what we did
On February 20

February 20
I did my best to explain
How it is we all will be with God
How it was the Savior came
February 20
If it's true what He said
That God Himself sang along
With the beautiful song
Of rejoicing in Heaven
As she prayed, "Jesus
Please come and live in my heart
And someday, can I come live with You?"
And we could never have imagined
She'd be going there so soon
So soon
So soon

God only knows
Everything that happened in that moment
God only knows
What He whispered to her heart
And God only knows
Just how thankful I will always be
That He gave her mom to me (Don't know exactly what this line says...)
February 20