To me, the artist is speaking of a journey -- physical, spiritual, emotional, perhaps all three -- she has been uprooted, she has taken "that first step out the door." But somewhere along the way she's gone astray, taken a detour off the path she wanted to follow. "I only stopped to look." Now she's asking God for forgiveness and understanding, and maybe a way back on her road. The chorus speaks the most strongly for this -- "Isn't that just like a finite mind? / Setting out with such righteous indignation / But now I'm at your feet / Could you look at me with some imagination?" She's asking God to look at her with imagination, to look at how far she's come and where she might yet go.
Even though we, as human beings, make mistakes and screw up, we can come to the feet of God and he will "look at us with imagination."
To me, the artist is speaking of a journey -- physical, spiritual, emotional, perhaps all three -- she has been uprooted, she has taken "that first step out the door." But somewhere along the way she's gone astray, taken a detour off the path she wanted to follow. "I only stopped to look." Now she's asking God for forgiveness and understanding, and maybe a way back on her road. The chorus speaks the most strongly for this -- "Isn't that just like a finite mind? / Setting out with such righteous indignation / But now I'm at your feet / Could you look at me with some imagination?" She's asking God to look at her with imagination, to look at how far she's come and where she might yet go.
Even though we, as human beings, make mistakes and screw up, we can come to the feet of God and he will "look at us with imagination."