Love Is the Way

**Title: “Love Is the Way”**

**Verse 1**

Once the world was quick to raise the sword

Anger burning brighter than the Lord

Every wound answered with another blow

Mercy was a thing we did not know

But a voice came walking through the dust

Speaking words the violent could not trust

Turn the cheek and stand within the flame

Love the ones who curse you in My name

**Pre-Chorus**

Every heart is broken in its own design

No one stands as righteous in the line

Still the mercy calls us from above

Calling every soul to learn to love

**Chorus**

Love is the way, even through the pain

When the world strikes hard, we remain

Holding mercy where the anger stood

Answering evil with the good

Love is the way, simple and clear

Faith like a child drawing near

Through every trial the truth remains

Love is stronger than the chains

**Verse 2**

When the hand of hatred strikes your face

Stand in quiet strength and answer grace

Let the storm exhaust its empty claim

Until the darkness feels its shame

For the ones who wound you cannot stand

When forgiveness rises in your hand

Every cruelty loses all its ground

When the heart of mercy is found

**Pre-Chorus**

For the scripture speaks what all must see

No one holds a perfect purity

Still the Father lifts us from the fall

Love was always greater than it all

**Chorus**

Love is the way, even through the pain

When the world strikes hard, we remain

Holding mercy where the anger stood

Answering evil with the good

Love is the way, simple and clear

Faith like a child drawing near

Through every trial the truth remains

Love is stronger than the chains

**Bridge**

There’s a tower rising through the sky

Steps of struggle climbing ever high

Some will chase the summit far above

Forgetting every step was shaped by love

But the path itself is where we stand

Every scar is written in His plan

And the joy is not the height we gain

But the road we walked through loss and pain

**Final Chorus**

Love is the way, lift up your eyes

Past every crown and every prize

The greatest wisdom ever understood

Is faith like children

Walking with the Father

Knowing He is good.