24. Holy Touch
Holy Touch is about the night a hand pressed against his chest while he was sick and
fading — not fire, not fear, just a cold clean silence like winter water rinsing out
the dark — and how when it lifted, the weight of the world came rushing back, leaving
him weeping and forever changed by what he had briefly felt.
By Thomas J. Allen, © 2026
Verse 1
I was sick and fading fast
My wife reached for the phone
Then a hand came down
And pressed against my chest
No fire, no fear
Just silence pure and bright
Like winter water
Rinsing out the night
Pre-Chorus
And I knew, I knew
I was not alone
Something holy touched me
Right down to my soul
Chorus
Holy touch of grace
(Holy touch of grace)
On my chest, on my soul
Clean as heaven's rain
(Holy touch of grace)
Then the dark came back
And I started to weep
Verse 2
When the hand lifted off
The room went cold and thin
I felt the world return
Like black sludge on my skin
The shame, the stain
The weight of what we are
I saw my soul
Like a cracked jar
Pre-Chorus
And I knew, I knew
I was not alone
Something holy touched me
Right down to my soul
Chorus
Holy touch of grace
(Holy touch of grace)
On my chest, on my soul
Clean as heaven's rain
(Holy touch of grace)
Then the dark came back
And I started to weep
Bridge
For months I walked
Like someone marked in light
One hand in sorrow
One hand in the night
I had seen the clean
I had known the flame
And nothing in me
Stayed the same
Outro Chorus
Holy touch of grace
(Holy touch of grace)
On my chest, on my soul
Clean as heaven's rain
(Holy touch of grace)
I was not the same
I was not the same
Father have mercy on my rigid soul