Music
We are designed to sense and engage God with everything that we are: listening, tasting, touching, beholding, receiving, and responding. One of my responses to the work of God in my life is music. It has become my expression of journaling. I am an amateur musician, but I hope that these songs can reinforce the lessons and writings and help you experience the grace of God.
Lovely Mystery
For years our paths have blended, and our plots have intertwined
The wonder’s never ended, and there is so much more to find.
I’m so glad to be in this beautiful mystery.
One Word of Truth
One word of truth outweighs the whole world
Every Season
I love you every season, loveliest of wildflowers,
As we grow together year to year and hour to hour.
You are brushed with God’s colors like a garden grows,
And everything you touch blooms, my beautiful, blooming rose.
Living Vows
Living Vows
I am posting this song for my lovely wife, Faye, in honor of our 32nd anniversary, which is June 23, 2022.
Imitating a wonderful tradition passed on to us by her parents, we repeat our vows every year. I wrote this song to honor and reinforce that tradition and to celebrate our marriage!
The idea is that just as our unity and love grow each year, so our understanding of the vows deepens, so that truly the vows are alive, maturing with us. “I said that I love you, and I am affirming that again and again.” Or as the song says: “I said that I would and I will/I said that I did and I do.” And, my beautiful bride, I still do.
Sabbath of the Heart
Like a child on a Sabbath night, dreamy-eyed in the candlelight
Expectant yet restful, eager but secure.
In the timeless interplay – the sacred and the everyday
The holy yet humble, the passionate and pure.
If You Hear His Voice Today (Easter 2022)
All who sin, who grieve, or stray He still calls you today.
Do not harden your heart, believe and obey, if you hear his voice today.
In Loving Memory of Henry Nelson – Jan 16, 1923 to Jan 31, 2022
We Didn't Start the Fire This is a song composed a few years ago in honor of my parents in law, Henry and Katie Nelson. Katie died in 2018, and Henry died today, January 31, 2022. He was 99 years old. What a life! Henry was born to missionary parents in...
Road To Hana
And being last of all, taking our sweet time, that is how we won the race that day, the competition to see who could enjoy the wonders of God the most.
Roads Go Ever Ever On
The road goes ever, ever on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the road has gone,
And I must follow if I can