Category: Music

Music Monday: Leeland

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Today’s Music Monday is a musical version of one of my favourite Old Testament stories. The song is “Carried to the Table” by Leeland:

Wounded and forsaken 
I was shattered by the fall 
Broken and forgotten 
Feeling lost and all alone 
Summoned by the King 
Into the Master’s courts 
Lifted by the Savior 
And cradled in His arms 

I was carried to the table 
Seated where I don’t belong 
Carried to the table 
Swept away by His love 
And I don’t see my brokenness anymore 
When I’m seated at the table of the Lord 
I’m carried to the table 
The table of the Lord 

Fighting thoughts of fear 
And wondering why He called my name 
Am I good enough to share this cup 
This world has left me lame 
Even in my weakness 
The Savior called my name 
In His Holy presence 
I’m healed and unashamed 

You carried me, my God 
You carried me

Music Monday: We Are

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Today’s Music Monday is an artist I haven’t listened to much until recently. The artist is Kari Jobe whose the song is based on the Gospel reading the other week, Matthew 5:14, (as well as Ephesians 5:8) and is entitled “We Are”:

Every secret, every shame 
Every fear, every pain 
Live inside the dark 
But that’s not who we are 
We are children of the day 

So wake up sleeper, lift your head 
We were meant for more than this 
Fight the shadows conquer death 
Make the most of the time we have left 

We are the light of the world 
We are the city on a hill 
We are the light of the world 
We gotta, we gotta, we gotta let the light shine x2 

We are called to the spread the news 
Tell the world the simple truth 
Jesus came to save, there’s freedom in His Name 
So let it all break through 

Music Monday: Blessings

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This week’s Music Monday entry is “Blessings” from Laura Story, a profound song which attempts to answer, in part, the hardest question of the Christian life: why does God allow suffering?

We pray for blessings, we pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near?
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?

We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we’d have faith to believe

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops,
What if Your healing comes through tears?
And what if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near?
What if my greatest disappointments
or the aching of this life is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy?
And what if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights are Your mercies in disguise?

Music Monday: The Prayer

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I’ve decided to start doing Music Monday posts. In these entries I’m going to share some of my favourite songs, in the hope it adds some joy to the beginning of your work week – it is a Monday, after all…

Today’s post is “The Prayer”, performed by Andrea Bocelli and Katharine McPhee:

I pray you’ll be our eyes, and watch us where we go.
And help us to be wise in times when we don’t know
Let this be our prayer, when we lose our way
Lead us to the place, guide us with your grace
To a place where we’ll be safe

La luce che tu hai (I pray we’ll find your light)
nel cuore restera (and hold it in our hearts)
a ricordarci che (when stars go out each night)
eterna stella sei (the light you have)

Nella mia preghiera (Let this be our prayer)
quanta fede c’e (when shadows fill our day)
Lead us to a place, guide us with your grace
To a place where we’ll be safe

Sognamo un mondo senza piu violenza (We dream a world without violence)
un mondo di giustizia e di speranza (a world of justice and faith.)
Ognuno dia la mano al suo vicino (Everyone gives the hand to his neighbours)
Simbolo di pace, di fraternita (Symbol of peace, of fraternity)

La forza che ci da (We ask that life be kind)
e il desiderio che (and watch us from above)
ognuno trovi amor (We hope each soul will find)
intorno e dentro se (another soul to love)

Let this be our prayer, let this be our prayer
Just like every child, just like every child
Need to find a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we’ll be safe

E la fede che (It’s the faith)
hai acceso in noi, (you light in us)
sento che ci salvera (I feel it will save us)

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