Divine Dust from Speak Boldly by Spencer LaJoye

I wrote "Divine Dust" around the time of Ash Wednesday. It's the nerdiest song on this album. I was thinking about the words spoken on Ash Wednesday: "Dust you are, and to dust you will return." I put this idea in conversation with two third/fourth century theologians: Athanasius, who said, "[The Word of God], indeed, assumed humanity that we might become God," and Arius, who controversially claimed that "there was a time when the Son was not" (he was deemed a heretic).
What I got was a song about the finite versus the infinite, the humanity of the divine, and the divineness of humanity.

Tracklist

6.	Divine Dust	4:40

Lyrics

There was a time when I was not.
And to dust I shall return.
There was a time when I was not.
And to dust I shall return.

God walked with us that we might walk with God.
Divine assumed the dust that we might be Divine.

God walked with us, that we might walk with God.
Divine assumed the dust, that we might be Divine.

Divine dust. (x4)

Was there not a time when dust was not?
Before the dawn.
Beyond the dark.

God walked with us, that we might walk with God.
Divine assumed the dust that we might be divine.

There was a time when I was not.
And to dust I shall return.
There was a time when I was not.
And to dust I shall return.

Credits

from Speak Boldly, released July 24, 2020

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