HAND OF KINDNESS 1996 Bright Avenue Songs (ASCAP) I've no need to be reminded Of all my failures and my sins For I can write my own indictment Of who I am and who I've been I know that grace, by definition, Is something I can never earn But for all the things that I may have missed There's a lesson I believe that I have learned There's a hand of kindness Holding me, holding me There's a hand of kindness Holding me, holding onto me Forgiveness comes in just a moment But sometimes the consequences last And it's hard to walk inside that mercy When the present is so tied up to the past In this crucible of cause and effect I walk the wire without a net And I wonder if I'll ever fall too far But that day has not happened yet And in the raven dark There shines a distant light It seems to point at me It burns away the night Familiar figure on horizon Moving closer now I see His heart is shining like the sun And he is reaching out for me With a hand of kindness He's holding me, holding me There's a hand of kindness Holding me, holding onto me Holding on ... a hand of kindness