Angels Are Awaiting

Angels Are Awaiting

Our title track here is a song about the presence of angels during the final moments of a believer's life. The song is original to us and was written based on actual events experienced by a friend of our Bass player Donnie. He usually introduces the song by telling the back story, which makes a great testimony before performing.

Donnie was in a Bible study group at his workplace many years ago. A pastor who worked with him led the study and the meetings. When life moved on and things changed causing the bible study to disband, the pastor gave Donnie the tattered bible that he had used to facilitate the meetings.

Years later, after having lost contact with the pastor, Donnie got word that the pastor had passed away. He went to visit the pastor's son with the desire to deliver to him the old bible his father had used. At that meeting, the son told Donnie about his father's last hours.

At the dying pastor's bedside, he told his son that there were angels in the room with him. This sort of upset the son and he went to the facility's chapel to pray. When he returned, his father had died peacefully.

After hearing this account, Donnie felt moved to write the song, Angels Are Awaiting. From the time we first heard it as a group, we knew it was a special song. But when you hear Donnie testify before we sing it...many, including us are moved to tears.

The song starts out telling of the Old man who is listening to the Doctor tell him "...news that he already knew". Then the wounded soldier on the battlefield :...holding his bible oh so tight". Then the question: Will Angels be Awaiting to carry you away?

The song utilizes the resonator guitar to drive the melody along in a steady mid- tempo. Madison's solo vocals start off and we add in male vocals as the song progresses.