Resurection Letters

Since we are coming to the close of Andrew Peterson Week here at Team Redd (though there is still one final post), and I have already shared some of my favorite Good Friday songs with you, and because we are approaching Easter, and because Andrew Peterson is such an awesome songwriter, I want to share what just might be my top favorite Andrew Peterson song of all time: High Noon.

Curt over at the Rabbit Room reminded me of it when he posted today about Andrew's tour and upcoming CD Resurrection Letters, and he shared a link I'd almost forgotten about, the Resurrection Journals from Holy Week 2007. (You'll forgive me if my memory is fuzzy -- I was staying awake with a newborn at the time.) If you haven't yet, you should also go read those journals, which are thoughtful reflections on the days leading up to Easter.

Which also reminds me...Andrew posted one last post on his old blog with a video from the Resurrection Letters tour, which is like the Christmas Behold the Lamb of God tour, only with the Easter Bunny. Wait, no, that's not right...

Anyway, as you celebrate with family and friends this weekend, and especially as you proclaim the triumph of the resurrection, I hope these lyrics, this allegory, helps you contemplate the glory of the moment on which all of history hangs, the climax of the age, in which the life of the age to come breaks through into our time, and Christ rose, the Heavens resounded, and the people rejoiced. Let His name forever ring out!

High noon in the valley of the shadow
When the deep of the valley was bright
When the mouth of the tomb shouted,
"Glory, the groom is alive"
So long, you wages of sin go on,
Don't you come back again
I've been raised and redeemed;
You've lost all your sting
To the victor of the battle at
High noon in the valley
In the valley of the shadow

And the demons, they danced in the darkness
When that last ragged breath left his lungs
And they reveled and howled
At the war that they thought they had won

But then, in the dark of the grave
The stone rolled away
In the still of the dawn on the greatest of days

High noon in the valley of the shadow
When the shadows were shot through with light
When Jesus took in that breath
And shattered all death with his life
Be gone, you wages of sin
Go on, don't you come back again
I've been raised and redeemed
You've lost all your sting
To the victor of the battle
High noon in the valley of the shadow

Let the people rejoice
Let the heavens resound
Let the name of Jesus, who sought us
And freed us forever ring out

All praise to the fighter of the night
Who rides on the light
Whose gun is the grace of the God of the sky

High noon in the valley of the shadow
When the shadows were shot through with light
When the mouth of the tomb
Shouted, "Glory, the Groom is alive"
Be gone, you wages of sin
Go on, don't you come back again
I've been raised and redeemed
All praise to the king
The victor of the battle
High noon in the valley
In the valley of the shadow

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