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  2020’s been crazy. It seems that everyone I talk to has their own, personal layers of upset that go beyond the overarching disturbances of a global pandemic and the mayhem of our city’s and nation’s civil unrest. Losing jobs, starting jobs, relatives dying, moving to new cities, buying houses, babies being born, children being adopted, companies being acquired, businesses and property being vandalized, responsibilities being reassigned…
  Many times, I have sat on the couch with my guitar, surrendering the difficult things set before me (and others) to the Lord, composing and quieting my soul that I may hope and trust in the Lord, and not in my own strength or ability (Psalm 131). Over the past months, I have grown more and more in love with the complete ‘otherness’ of God - that his everlasting way of unshakable peace, hope, love, validation, compassion, and so much more stand in such breathtaking contrast to the shallow yet pervasive and socially acceptable ways of anxiety, cynicism, and self that seem normal and even good, until contrasted. Asking God to “lead me in Your way everlasting” is as much worshiping the awesomeness of a Holy, mind-blowing, and heart-supersaturating God who provides a way, as it is a plea for Him to lead me in that way (Psalm 142). And because of the absolute richness of His glory and the totally different way he provides to truly live life, with Jesus dwelling in our hearts and His very Spirit in our innermost beings, He invites us to take part in His own kingdom building. So, strengthen us, Lord, with your supernatural power that we would be rooted in the love of Christ and be filled to the very fullness of You! (Ephesians 3) - pause - Clearly the dominant life script is crumbling. Yet, we are able to stare hopelessness, anxiety, fear, shame, deception, and even death itself in the face and see instead the hope, peace, freedom, truth, and life of Christ! Where the enemy has propagated lying, cheating, stealing, killing, and destroying, Jesus brings life abundantly. When we get a taste of Jesus, like straight, undiluted Jesus, we can't not start to understand that we are all deeply loved and infinitely valuable. That love changes everything.
  I never set out to make a cohesive series of songs, but it seems that there is a flow to this sequence nonetheless. I hope you find encouragement in these simple little songs, and if you’re not into them (which is totally fine), that in some other way you catch longer and deeper glimpses of freedom, wonder, surrender, truth, beauty, passion, hope, and life in Jesus. ... more
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