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.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY
But flesh and blood’s the perfect part – The lady with the beating heart,
She’s the centerpiece of beauty in this lovely work of art!
A Fathers’ Day Blessing for My Sons (“A Story ’bout Space”)
The two brothers, who in the future remain very close friends, team up to go flying around the solar system and capturing alien animals to go in the zoo, befriending kind alien species, and thwarting multiple attempted invasions by malevolent extraterrestrial races.
A Mothers’ Day Blessing (Fruitful)
May you be fruitful, may you flourish and increase through every season with God’s grace and love and peace.
May your children rise up and call you blessed.
May you be fruitful!
Spring Beauty
Now life is short, like springtime, so we must work while it is day.
But everything in season, so take my hand, it’s time for play!
Tapestry
TAPESTRY Written for Valentine's Day 2021 TAPESTRY Our moments seem to wander loose, like threads that are unwound. In colors, shapes, and textures that seem aimless and unbound, But if you view them rightly, then a picture will unveil, And intertwining...
Children’s Eyes
But this feeling? This fierce, overpowering delight? Could God above have feelings toward me (and you) that are remotely like this? The answer is an emphatic yes!
Eternity
And wistfully yearning to end where it starts;
From trickle to torrent, eternity here in our hearts.
Stealing Time
STEALING TIME The day is breaking like a shell, And what is hatching who can tell? For time is a mystery we can’t understand - Years slip through our fingers and leave just an instant in our hand. So let’s steal the dewy silver of...
You’d Take Me Home
You’d Take Me Home At times you’d fail to keep me warm, And you were losing luster from your form. But this one thing you’d do, you were faithful, you were true In fairer weather or in storm: You’d take me home, you’d take me home. O sturdy steed of...