PREPARE THE HOUSE

Prepare the house…
Prepare the house…
Love is coming through the door…

Prepare the house…
Prepare the house…
Love is coming through the door…

Sweep out the fear now
Open the windows wide
Lay down the weapons, children
No need to run and hide

Prepare the house…
Prepare the house…
Love is coming through the door…

What is the foundation?
Tell me what holds the floor?

Truth does…
Truth does…
Mercy and relation, Lord…

What is the framing?
What lifts the human wall?

Care does…
Care does…
Or the whole house is gonna fall…

Prepare the house!
Prepare the house!
Love is coming through the door!

Prepare the house!
Prepare the house!
Love is what we’re building for!

Who is the architect?
Who drew the sacred plan?

Love is…
Love is…
Working through the hearts of man

Who is the carpenter?
Who cuts the beams with care?

The workers…
The mothers…
The healers everywhere…

The farmer in the hot sun
The nurse beside the bed
The teacher holding children
The ones the system bled

The artist carving sorrow
The hands that still repair
The people building shelter
Because somebody must care

Prepare the house…
Prepare the house…
Love is coming through the door…

Who are we building for?
Who is the table set for?

The children…
The weary…
The stranger and the poor

The rivers and the forests
The future not yet born
The brokenhearted people
Trying to survive the storm

No fortress!
No empire!
No marketplace of fear!

Build a house of refuge now—
Love belongs here!

Is it sustainable?
Can the roof survive the rain?

Can the walls remember mercy
After all this grief and pain?

Can the table feed the people
Without poisoning the land?

Can the future still keep breathing
Inside these human hands?

Sustainable!
Regenerative!
Love must feed the roots!

Sustainable!
Regenerative!
Truth must bear the fruits!

Where is the love?
Tell me where the love has gone?

It’s hidden by the nonsense and noise
But still singing softly on

In the hands still building
After everything collapsed
In the soul still reaching
Through the smoke and ash

In the friend who stayed
When the whole world ran
In the heart still trembling
Trying to love again

Ohhhh children…
Prepare the house…

Not for kings only
Not for profit only
Not for power only

Prepare the house for LIFE!

For the exhausted and forgotten
For the lonely and displaced
For every frightened creature
Still searching for embrace

Prepare the house!
Prepare the house!
Love is coming through the door!

Prepare the house!
Prepare the house!
We don’t live by fear no more!

You can’t get ahead of love!
No dear one—you cannot outrun grace!

The future belongs to the people
Who make the world a safer place!

Prepare the house…
Prepare the house…

Love is not a visitor now—

Love is moving in.

Home is where the heart is.

Home is love forever more.