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November 19, 2013

How A Wounded Bird Flies: A New Single Just Released 19 November 2013

Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa

In October of 2010 I flew to South Africa to attend the Lausanne Global Evangelism Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. Somehow in God’s providence and under the fallenness of this old world, I came upon a virus that attacked the autonomic system bringing a diagnosis of an illness that scrambled my neuro to cardiac communication systems and interrupted vital, involuntary functions. By God’s goodness and power, I am stabilized. And I thank The Lord for all of the prayer from so many faithful friends and for those like the US Army Reserves Chaplain School that stood with me. Thank you.

During the worst part of it I wrote a song, while we were recovering in New England, called “How a Wounded Bird Flies.” I didn’t want to waste my Dysautonomia (with all due credit to John Piper). So I recorded this song while still sick. It was better that way though the singing may reveal the sickness. Yet I wanted it to have an authentic cry of suffering, if you will, in order to try to identity with others who suffer greater, longer and in ways I can never, ever know. I wanted to, somehow, taste, savor, compose, and sing of the suffering of Christ so that I might “improve” the illness and make it useful in a pastoral way. I offer this song being released through Bethesda as one such attempt at these aspirations. The song is distributed through iTunes,  Amazon, and many others. The music is copyright 2013 Michael Milton, Bethesda (TuneCore), BMI.

Scriptural theme in the song: “For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps” (1 Peter 2:21).

A Thought: “Some flowers must be broken or bruised before they emit any fragrance.”—Robert Murray M’Cheyne, More Gathered Gold: a Treasury of Quotations for Christians, edited by John Blanchard (Welwyn, England: Evangelical Press, 1986), p.  315.

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How A Wounded Bird Flies

Michael Milton, Summer, 2013, Stongington, Connecticut

If I could identify
My pain with His suffering
Then I could realize
His life in mine
If I could begin to see
The gift of this suffering
Is naught but an offering
For One who died for me

If I could awaken from
The sleep of my unbelief
And just touch the hem
Of His garment again
Then I would be healed of these
Chains of self sorrow
And I’d see tomorrow
As a pathway to Thee

But that is a work of the Spirit oh Lord
For all of my own power has flown
Like a wounded bird chased by the raven of death
She feels the approach and she’s gone
For only by grace will I ever be saved
And only in mercy will find
My way to the safety of your mighty wings
So Lord won’t you hear my cries
Let me learn how a wounded bird flies
Let me learn how a wounded bird flies.

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What is Faith For Living?

Faith for Living is the 501c3 North Carolina non-profit ministry of the Rev. Michael A. Milton, Ph.D. that exists to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ to as many people as possible, through every means available, so that there will be a multitude caught up to be with Jesus Christ when He comes again. Faith for Living reaches out to support individuals, the Church, and other non-profits through communication, discipleship, and education.

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“Christ is Risen” words & music by Michael Anthony Milton
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