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YOU ARE WORTH IT ALL
(A tribute to everyone that has experienced depression, desolation of spirit, 
post traumatic stress [PTS], or even despairing unto death)


(EXCERPT)
Text and Music by James Sundquist
©1979 ROCK SALT MUSIC, (Now Eagle Masterworks Productions) BMI

©2014 JAMES SUNDQUIST EAGLE MASTERWORKS PRODUCTIONS

Based on Scriptures of "despairing unto death"...the greatest depression one can suffer…, this song is a song of hope, encouragement, and consolation to all saints.  I wrote this song on the piano to dissuade a woman who was seriously contemplating suicide.  Job, David, Elijah, Jeremiah, the Apostle Paul, and Jesus Christ all experienced desolation of the soul!  I should say that our worth is not due to any merit of our own, but our inherit worth is because of Christ's own infinite imputed worth.  On a similar theme, I wrote in another song entitled: Shopping Bag Lady, these lyrics: "We are all refugees on the earth, only the Lord is refuge and our worth."

Here are scriptural themes for this song:

"For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:"  2 Corinthians 1:8



"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."  Isaiah 53:3  Prophecy of Jesus Christ

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Here are the lyrics:

Time doesn't mean a thing when you're crying inside

I know it hurts now

And all that happened makes no sense

When you're sitting on the fence

Try not to think too often,

Try not to think too often of the pain

Try not to be ashamed of what has been done to you

By the storm and the rain
  
'CAUSE DON'T YOU KNOW

YOU ARE WORTHY OF SMILING IN LIFE

YOU CAN LIVE WITHOUT THE STRIFE

AND PEACE SHALL COME

GENTLE SHALL IT RAIN UPON YOU NOW

TO SOOTHE THE PAIN

'CAUSE DON'T YOU KNOW, DON'T YOU KNOW

YOU ARE WORTH IT ALL

He has been there, two thousand years ago

He is acquainted with your grief and your sorrow, and your sorrow

And your sorrow

CHORUS (through "YOU ARE WORTH IT ALL”)





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