Reflections on the prophet Isaiah…

I was talking to a good friend of mine about songwriting today and whenever I start thinking about inspiration and songwriting, I inevitably think back to Isaiah.  Weird huh?  I was just so impacted back in February when I was reading through the book of Isaiah.  He is one that is undisputed as one of [...]

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God is too good to me; ie. “My Discontent”

So I’ve been really frustrated lately because I felt like I lost my ability to write a meaningful song.  I’ve written so many fragments and tried to fit so many pieces and nothing has been clicking for, really, three or more months.  And this may be hard to relate, but when I don’t have a [...]

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Disturb us

This prayer is from Jeanie Curryer.  All I really know about her is that she was a missionary, but it’s a prayer that has stuck with me for quite awhile:
“Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves.  When our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little.  When we arrive safely [...]

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My Jesus – a song without music

So sometimes I like to be creative.  And my most common form of creativity is songwriting and the like.  But sometimes I will have a conviction or thoughts I want to put in to words, however for the life of me, I cannot fight music that does it justice.  So it sits in poetic form [...]

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A Prayer to Yahweh, the Giver. (Matthew 7:7-8)

We come to find that knowledge is really power. So many times we seek knowledge so that we might be right, so that we might be the authority, so we may have a leg up on someone else. Lord my God, purify my quest for knowledge; that it may be for the purpose of knowing [...]

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