After re-reading my notes from the “Me-Ville” seminar I attended last night, I kept thinking about the lyrics of a song I first heard in the same year that I first started attending Willow Creek…

So, pardon my nostalgia but I’m going to post the lyrics that have been haunting me…

Beggar

Words and Music by John Fischer (1982)

I know where the food is
And it isn't very far away
Doesn't cost much but an empty soul
And the pride that stands in the way

I'm not one who's got it all in place
Telling you what you should do
No I'm just one old hungry beggar
Showing you where I found food

Have you found the water
That will never make you thirst again
Jesus is a well of water springing up
Into eternal life from within

I'm not one who's got it all in place
Telling you what you should do
No I'm just one old hungry beggar
Showing you where I found food

Maybe you aren't hungry
And maybe you don't thirst at all
But maybe the years have hardened the tears
And you really are a beggar after all

I'm not one who's got it all in place
Telling you what you should do
No I'm just one old hungry beggar
Showing you where I found food