[Title: WHO AM I NOW?] [Intro – Children, Distant Memory] MISS Chris-TEE! [Female] I remember that sound. Little feet running. Arms wide open. A smile coming before the hug. MISS Chris-TEE! I taught you how to hear the count. How to find the beat. How to trust your feet when the music changed. And your mothers knew me. My phone rang daily. Emails. Late-night messages. Even miles from home, I'd hear my name— [Children] MISS Chris-TEE! [Verse 1] You knew me then. You knew the dancer. You knew the teacher. You trusted me with your children. We laughed. We moved. We grew together. Then something happened inside of me. The Gospel stopped being something I only heard— and became something I could not stop living. I opened my mouth about Jesus. And where I remembered open arms— I found silence. [Silence] So I asked— WHO AM I NOW? [Chorus] WHO AM I NOW? When nobody runs toward me? WHO AM I NOW? When the little bubble drops and nothing comes back? No AMEN. No joy I can see. No running hug across the room. Lord, WHO AM I NOW? [Silence] “But by the grace of God I am what I am.” [Female] There is my answer. BY THE GRACE OF GOD— I AM WHAT I AM. [Instrumental] [Verse 2] I will not accuse you, sister. I cannot read your silence. Maybe you're listening. Maybe you're unsure. Maybe you don't know what happened to me. Maybe you remember who I was and don't know what to do with who stands before you now. I understand. Because sometimes I look in the mirror and ask her too— WHO ARE YOU NOW? [Beat] The dancer didn't die. The teacher didn't disappear. But Christ became the center of the room. [Chorus] WHO AM I NOW? Still the woman who taught the count. Still the woman those children knew. But I don't need your memory of me to tell me who I belong to. Old things are passed away; BEHOLD, ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW. BY THE GRACE OF GOD— I AM WHAT I AM. [Long Instrumental – Dance Rhythm Slowly Awakens] [Bridge – Female Spoken] Funny. I used to teach you— Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Listen. Don't rush. Find the music. Trust the count. Move. [Silence] And now the Lord is teaching me— Don't rush to interpret the silence. Don't make their faces your mirror. Don't turn an unanswered message into a verdict. Keep your eyes ON CHRIST. [Music Returns] So— five. six. seven. eight. MOVE. [Breakdown] If you answer— I love you. If you don't— I love you. If you come running with open arms again— I'll hold you. If you need distance— I will not chase you for an AMEN. Because I finally learned— your applause cannot make me new. Your silence cannot make me old. CHRIST HAS ME. [Final Chorus] WHO AM I NOW? BY THE GRACE OF GOD— I AM WHAT I AM! A dancer who found a better song. A teacher who became a student. A woman who once taught children how to move to music— now learning how to walk BY FAITH. WHO AM I NOW? I AM HIS. Not because everybody recognizes me. Not because everybody understands me. Not because everybody answers. I looked unto Jesus— AND I AM NOT ASHAMED. [Outro – Music Falls Away] Sometimes I still remember it. Across a room. Across a parking lot. Across the years— [Children, Very Distant] MISS Chris-TEE! [Female, Softly] I'm still here. But I don't belong to yesterday. And sister— you don't owe me an AMEN. [Silence] I just pray when you look at what became of me, you don't stop at Miss Chris-TEE. Look past me. LOOK UNTO JESUS. [Long Silence] By the grace of God I am what I am. And whatever good you see in me— give Him the glory. JESUS IS THE LORD.
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