Painting Pictures of Egypt

Sara Groves has this song, older one, but I just heard for the first time last week, and it is called painting pictures of Egypt. It talks about those times when we are moving on with God, the unfamiliar and unknown, and the time, the waiting, can cause us to look back longingly...painting a picture far more attractive than it truly was.

Sometimes, I think my picture of Egypt is not the past, as much as it is a version of the present and future different than what it is. Still and Egupt. Still focusing on something other than what God is willing at this point and time.

Expectations. We have so many expectations..yet, if we will set them aside and instead experience what God is doing now. Where God is taking us...and let Him show us...we can enjoy now...rather than looking to paintings of Egypt. Below are the lyrics and the song from youtube is posted at the end.

Enjoy.

Painting Pictures of Egypt
by Sara Groves

I don’t want to leave here

I don’t want to stay

It feels like pinching to me either way

The places I long for the most

Are the places where I’ve been

They are calling after me like a long lost friend

I’ve been painting pictures of Egypt
Leaving out what it lacked
The future seems so hard
And I want to go back
But the places that used to fit me
Cannot hold the things I"ve learned
And those roads closed off to me
While my back was turned

It’s not about losing faith

It’s not about trust

It’s all about comfortable

When you move so much

The place I was wasn’t perfect

But I had found a way to liv

eIt wasn’t milk or honey

But then neither is this

I’ve been painting pictures of Egypt

Leaving out what it lacked

The future seems so hard

And I want to go back

But the places that used to fit me

Cannot hold the things I"ve learned

And those roads closed off to me

While my back was turned

The past is so tangible

I know it by heart

Familiar things are never easy to discard

I was dying for some freedom

But now I hesitate to go

Caught between the promise

And the things I know

If it comes too quick

I may not recognize it

Is that the reason behind all this time and sand?

If it comes too quick

I may not appreciate it

Is that the reason behind all this time and sand?

I’ve been painting pictures of Egypt
Leaving out what it lacked
The future seems so hard
And I want to go back
But the places that used to fit me
Cannot hold the things I"ve learned
And those roads closed off to me
While my back was turned