Lyrics, Lamentations & Love Songs*

  When I’m lost When I’m hurting As the day opens up and breaks Tears like rivers flowing My whole world erupts and shakes Not lost upon the morning As I sit here oh, so small Find my spirit longing For the hope that covers all There is a place I run to In the crevice of the rock Where my salvation finds  The peace I longingly sought There I abide In the presence  I seek and find More than empty promises Filled from the very source Of holy, living water As my spirit quiets from the noise  There I abide Lift up my weary head As I kneel by his side The father opens arms And takes me in I am replenished  Growing closer from within And there I abide  Never wanting to leave His peace, I find 09/06/26 clc “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can d...

  Do you see me? Do you care? In those moments when I want to fade away Are you really there? When the darkness Falls across my face Where are you God? I feel so out of place Inside my heart Just want to run And run and run and run Off towards the sun But that seems silly When I’m sitting in shame That’s the dichotomy inside my head Keeps on rearranging The truth So I sit And throw a good old-fashioned childish fit Do you hear me wail? Do you hear me scream? Do you even have context at all? In those moments, it truly seems I’m alone Licking my wounds And for a moment, for 12, That’s all I can do So I ask you again Are you there? Creator of the universe, Do you really care For me? In the stillness, Once I’m done Through my brokenness and self deceit You answer… “My son, Yes”. “I have been with you  since I formed you And I am quite aware of all that you feel And if you fail I don’t care, I love you And I always will!” 09/04/26 clc

I wonder what a child sees When they first wake upon the world Is it like when we’ll see heaven? Like a kaleidoscope as it swirls Slowly finding focus Maybe that’s how we find God His light more than we can handle The radiance of His love Eyes adjust to the splendor Unable to fathom how beautiful it can be We live here, in our sin Often just struggling to believe But like a child comes quickly When prompted by his love Maybe we can open up more To all he was thinking of As he created the planets, he created the stars Yet, they were deemed second place When he says “I made you in my image” And gave us the gift of grace As he called the children He also calls you and me Touched us with his spirit Gave us breath Life and His Peace. 09/04/26 clc

God doesn’t always speak In the way we think we need His voice on the wind Might be lost as we’re waiting on him But like building mountains takes time Our patience lacks the divine Nature that paints the sky The hands of the maker Seeks and finds The answer that truly completes And gives us what we need. 09/03/26 clc

Sometimes it’s in the hard things That we find where we truly are Even when we want to crawl away Lick our wounds and hide our scars But as someone told me the other day Darkness cannot hide When the light of the Savior Shines brightly through the night Doesn’t mean it’s easy Oh it hurts, it stings But we’re not alone in this That’s why he gave us voices to sing Not always in joyful celebration Sometimes just whispering soft his name, In those still, soft moments That’s when he can change Our insides Our doubts, our fears And help wipe away the tears That stain our face. 09/01/26 clc

Sidewalk preacher Some kind of teacher Who is this man That walks among the thieves? What is this gospel He keeps proclaiming? Saying he’s the son of man Asking me to believe They speak of miracles The crowds adore him He just walks along I sit here at the gate I see him coming I hear the whispers wondering if he even sees me All I can do is wait And he comes Right to me ‘Pick up your mat There’s a world I want you to see If you can just believe’ He brought no kingdom No worldly riches But he gave a gift So these very feet  Can carry on now With his message Proclaiming the glory Out among the streets And he came Right to me Spoke the words that echo ‘You are my child, And you’re set free’ 08/31/26 clc