Brother Cain

Covered Wagon Girl

I wrote this for my wife Bekah.  This is the jam she walked down the aisle to at our wedding - it was the greatest.

Bekah

You Either Leave Or You Stay

A Mighty Fortress is Our God

Letter To The Pretender

Kind the Storm

-based on “Though in a Foreign Land” 
#177 in A Few Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Selected 1856, For The Little Flock 

I am a mariner, on this ocean wide,
but I am not far, from where my heart abides.  
Nearer to my rest above,
with every violent swell I come.

Christ is our vessel strong,
I am secure within his walls.
And when the stormy surges rise,
blessed be the sorrow and kind the storm that drives.

I am no wanderer, no vagabond,
I have not lost my way.
I have a bearing, a lamp unto my feet,
a priceless treasure that I keep.

Christ is our vessel strong,
I am secure within his walls.
And when the stormy surges rise,
blessed be the sorrow and kind the storm that drives.

Oh restless travelers, come and find your peace,
a shelter and a bed.
The storm may blow and make high the waves,
but our Carrier will not shake.

'cause Christ is, our vessel strong,
We are secure within his walls.
And when the stormy surges rise, 
blessed be the sorrow and kind the storm that drives.


Kind the Storm

We All Fall Down

Isaac Watts, 1707

There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign,
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.

There everlasting spring abides,
And never withering flowers:
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heav’nly land from ours.

Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand dressed in living green:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.

But timorous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea;
And linger, shivering on the brink,
And fear to launch away.

O could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy thoughts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love
With unbeclouded eyes!

Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o’er,
Not Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood,
Should fright us from the shore.

There Is a Land of Pure Delight

Whisper Softly

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Remember Us in Mercy


We have heard of your great works,
We have seen the mark you made,
And we call to you,
remember us in mercy.

We will climb our highest towers,
And look out over our walls,
We will wait for you,
To find us in your mercy.

Oh God, God of our fathers you delivered, you delivered,
Oh God, You stood before eternal hills, and they were scattered,
Oh God, You are the Everlasting One, 
and You remember us in mercy.

We have stained our house with blood, 
We have done such evil things, 
and we call you you, 
remember us in mercy.

We have plundered our own homes, 
We have no one else but you, 
We will wait for you,
To find us in your mercy.

Oh God, God of our fathers you delivered, you delivered,
Oh God, You stood before eternal hills, and they were scattered,
Oh God, You are the Everlasting One, 
and You remember us in mercy.


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