{"id":202,"date":"2012-04-23T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/reelfaith\/2012\/04\/first-love-keith-green.html"},"modified":"2016-08-02T11:32:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:32:48","slug":"first-love-keith-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/reelfaith\/2012\/04\/first-love-keith-green.html","title":{"rendered":"First Love: Keith Green"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\u201cOn Monday night this week, about midnight, I wrote a letter to the Lord. I\u2008didn\u2019t know where to mail it, so I put it in my bible. And I asked Him, \u2018Lord, you got to do something about my heart.
<\/a>\u201cYou know a lot of time has gone by since I met you and it\u2019s starting to harden up, you know, it\u2019s just kind of natural. I\u2008want to have baby skin, Lord\u2014I want to have skin like a baby on my heart. It\u2019s starting to get old and wrinkled and callused.\u2019\u2008It\u2019s not \u2018cause of anything I\u2019m doing. It\u2019s \u2018cause of a lot of things I\u2019m not doing. And I stayed up \u2018til about 2 in the morning writing this song . . .<\/p>\n

\u2018Oh Lord, You\u2019re Beautiful\/ Your face is all I see\/ For when Your eyes are on this child\/ your love abounds in me . . .\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\u2018Oh Lord, please light the fire\/ That once burned bright and clear\/ Replace the lamp of my first love\/ That burns with holy fear\u2019.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014Keith Green, 1953-1982<\/div>\n
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