D-Day And Beyond - 2014 - 2017

Too many songs claim, "True Love Will Never Die"...not so. There is a treachery that will murder the truest of loves.  By the power of God, true love may be resurrected from death, but it is not true that true love can never die.  Sometimes, dying is exactly what the Doctor ordered. 

The Night Love Died

When once is all revealed, no secrets concealed, on the road to being healed...the dance of death is replaced by The Recovery Waltz.  Blessed is the man who dances with his Bride in plain sight of the Lord of the Dance. 

Recovery Waltz

And Even Still The Rains Came

How deep the pain of love despised
How treacherous its treason
That I such madness have devised
Deceit beyond all reason

How deep the loss I now endure
How sorrowful and grieving
When thou had giv'n devotion pure
And I the while deceiving

My tears and sorrow'll ne'er regain
The trust that I did forfeit
When I my folly didn'st restrain
How was this for my profit?

Thy love for me I have destroyed
I cannot find me comfort
Inside my heart the awful void
Of sin that reigned triumphant

My sin, no Judas hath conspired
A treachery more heinous.
No hellish demon could have sired
A perfidy more ruinous.

And now I wail and mourn my loss
Of thy sweet love so blessed
Its precious gold now turned to dross
Its tender arms repressed

How deeper shall this sorrow grow
How bottomless this sentence
What depths of sorrow must I know
What tears of deep repentance

My daily bread, my deep despair
Results from sin's dark leaven
My only hope of love's repair
Can only come from Heaven.



Poem

Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable  
Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity  
Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God  
Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves  
Step 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs  
Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character  
Step 7 - Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings  
Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all  
Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others  
Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it  
Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out  
Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs  

12 Step Bolero

Baoji in A

The first worship song I've written in over 30 years.  

Praise Belongs To You

Recovery from addictions, whatever they be, require one in Heaven and two on Earth  To truly win the race, one must turn one's will and life over to the care of God.  That being done, God turns the race over to one coach at the starting gate, and one at the finish line.  It is vital to start right and finish well, and for that we must have one ever urging us away from whence we came, and the other reminding us of what awaits at the finish line. Though they be repeated over the course of hundreds and hundreds of miles, there are but 12 steps to this race,  and they must be dispatched in full measure, for the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.  It is the mind made intentional by the will turned over to the care of God that will finish in the end.  Thanks to Matt and Ken for their place in the marathon of recovery, and for my beautiful Pauline, who is the wind beneath my feet.  This is written for you all.

The Sponsor And His Sponsee

A little Rock-a-Bildad the Shuhite based on the Biblical story of Job. 

My Servant Job

Russell's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day‎

John Takes The Fifth

And Still The Rains Came 2015

Morning Nuance

This is a remake of Movement II, The Rising, from Heroes, the musical elegy I did for my sister Meri.  It is a sad melody for a sad time.

The Rising 2017

Waiting For The Plumber

Let's Roll 2017

Song Of The Shulamite

Day after day, my student practices six notes, to shape his fingers to the songs I will have him play.  However, when he goes to sleep at night, this is what awaits him in his dreams.

The Piano Student's Nightmare

The Shooting At Stoneman Douglas High School

The Gold Man's Sax

A. Symposium o covers and originals in coneflower variety style

D-Day And Beyond - 2014 - 2017

Coneflower Basement Band