More music

It's been awhile since I've posted. I really think I should write more - not necessarily on this blog - but in general.. it is very healthy, I think.

But if you're thinking that this will be some sort of intelligent or clever post, you are wrong. I am just sharing a couple of artists who have really occupied my time the past few days... Current favorite songs in parentheses...

Alli Rogers ("Eden")
Kendall Payne ("I will show you love")

Listen to them. Seriously.

A couple more...
Josh Garrels ("Zion & Babylon")
Jon Foreman ("Again")

Beautiful Music

Check it out. I've met him a couple of times before. He often plays keyboard at our church.

http://andrewrrogers.com/music/

Welcome to Our World

Tears are falling
Hearts are breaking
How we need to hear from God
You've been promised
We've been waiting
Welcome, Holy Child
Welcome, Holy Child

Hope that you don't
Mind our manger
How I wish we would have known
But long-awaited
Holy Stranger
Make Yourself at home
Please make Yourself at home

Bring Your peace
Into our violence
Bid our hungry souls be filled
Word now breaking
Heaven's silence
Welcome to our world
Welcome to our world

Fragile finger
Sent to heal us
Tender brow prepared for thorn
Tiny heart
Whose blood will save us
Unto us is born
Unto us is born

So wrap our injured
Flesh around You
Breathe our air and walk our sod
Rob our sin
And make us holy
Perfect Son of God
Welcome to our world

("Welcome to Our World," Chris Rice)

If I Stand

There's more that rises in the morning than the sun
And more that shines in the night than just the moon
There's more than just this fire here that keeps me warm
In a shelter that is larger than this room

And there's a loyalty that's deeper than mere sentiment
And a music higher than the songs that I can sing
Stuff of Earth competes for the allegiance
I owe only to the Giver of all good things

So if I stand, let me stand on the promise that you will pull me through
And if I can't, let me fall on the grace that first brought me to you
So if I sing, let me sing for the joy that has born in me these songs
And if I weep, let it be as a man who is longing for his home

There's more that dances on the prairies than the wind
And more that pulses in the ocean than the tide
There's a love that's fiercer than the love between friends
More gentle than a mother's when her baby's at her side

And there's a loyalty that's deeper than mere sentiment
And a music higher than the songs that I can sing
The stuff of Earth competes for the allegiance
I owe only to the Giver of all good things

So if I stand, let me stand on the promise that You will pull me through
And if I can't, let me fall on the grace that first brought me to You
And if I sing let me sing for the joy that has born in me these songs
And if I weep, let it be as a man who is longing for his home

So if I stand, let me stand on the promise You will pull me through
And if I can't, let me fall on the grace that first brought me to You
And if I sing, let me sing for the joy that has born in me these songs
And if I weep, let it be as a man who is longing for his home

And if I weep, let it be as a man who is longing for home.


"If I Stand," by Rich Mullins (as performed by Jars of Clay)