Lyrics, Lamentations & Love Songs*

Give me the strength to understand The world keeps shaking yet, here I am I don’t have treasures the world would buy I’m just a lone man looking toward the light The best I can Lord, what’s your plan? Help me hear your voice amidst the cacophony Help me make the choice Please quiet any anxiety  inside of me As I look towards you Help me see I may not understand but Lord, please keep your hand  On me. 06/24/25 clc “Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.” Psalm 62:5–6

You may feel lonely  So why don’t you speak?  You may feel the weight of the world (is)  Crashing at your feet  You may feel like a statue  Not able to break  But inside,  What toll does that take?  Maybe you were told to be silent  That it wasn’t like a man  To open up your feelings  And some of that, I understand  But when the world keeps pushing on you  And think you’ve got to walk alone  That’s where you’re wrong  There are others on the same road  To be a man Doesn’t mean to be silent  Because I’m sure you’ve said some words  But what is the intention When your voice is actually heard? Do you know how to say I love you  And follow it with your choice  To take each and every moment  Trying to hear above the noise? Because to be a man doesn’t mean to be quiet  Hell, you’ve yelled out loud  But maybe somewhere inside  You feel a little too proud?  Too proud to o...

The angels don’t cry  for the ones up in heaven,  they cry for the ones left behind For the weary  For the downtrodden  For the ones they find  Sad  Without purpose  Or maybe grieving someone still  The angels come to comfort  Shining a little of God’s will We think of choirs singing  But they also cradle the weak They remind us  In their stirring Of who makes us complete  The angels shout, victorious  They proclaim to those who seek All the things, glorious And remind us  We’re not complete Until we stand among the presence  of the maker of this earth United with those gone before us Through the message of a birth A life A death A resurrection And a gift  Given to the earth. Angels sing  As heartstrings  Find hope Here in this world. 06/20/25 clc

Let me be still  with you Subtle moments As I sit, quietly renew My body weary My strength faded away Help me to seek you, to stop and simply pray Ask the daytime  to open up my eyes As you bring morning  to full light Please help me not rush to  ‘make each moment count’  What am I really striving for? You are where my hope is found  And as the daytime fades, gives way to dusk Sitting quietly renew my heartfelt trust Watching starlight, seeing a firefly cross the night Give me your spirit as I stop, close my eyes And pray - Be still with me Today. 06/20/25 clc “He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭46‬:‭10‬ ‭NIV‬‬ “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”  Jeremiah 29:13 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.  Psalm...

Take this day Take each moment Open up our eyes to what you have before us Each breath Open our lungs As you open up our hearts to all you’ve done for us Help us linger in your light As we walk through the day Help open up our eyes And hold us close Let us be More like you in everything Hear this prayer as our hearts sing to you. 06/15/25 clc

Wake a little groggy Eyes feel puffy Body a little tense  Just want to run to you Like the little boy From way back then I do not understand you Like how the wind Seems to whisper my name I know you surround me Yet I still often remain Scared Lonely Hopeful, Yet stuck Inside my own feelings Even with you here Many times I want to give up  Yet inside I feel you Tugging at my core Knowing you’re there Even when I struggle “Dear Lord, I need you more” The weight starts to lift My body still weary Know I need to move Shower Take a few more sips  (of coffee) I cling to you There is no choir of angels No parade to cheer me on Yet welling deep inside me If I listen Is your song Not bound to my emotions Those teeter in the wind But the hope of generations  Found in the voice of you, My friend  So help me  When I struggle Push me when I don’t want to face What you have before me I just want to take my place Beside you. 06/13/25 clc “The wind blows where it wishes an...

When I am weary Like a songbird  who’s lost their wings You remind me to look up,  open my lungs and sing And even as my body feels it can’t take any more You replace my longings With new wings On which to soar Into the unknown From darkest night You lift up my spirit And show me again  how to fly Until I find the strength As I’m lost with in the world You remind me How Heaven sings Cheering me on… “Just a little more…” You await  like the sun shines at first light And even when I’m sad, alone You remind me to keep my sight On You. And my spirit knows the dark will end You, my creator  My savior My friend  Are always there. 06/11/25 clc “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the Lord God is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.”” Isaiah‬ ‭12‬:‭2‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

No wonder I feel so small Against the backdrop of the universe In the shadow of all You are I find inside I never feel enough But that’s how you created me To need you To need your love And yet I still think Often times  I can do this alone That I can master  The sun and stars And make rainbows On my own But I’m barely master Of my tiniest things I don’t know the song As you encourage me to sing I still seek you In the storm clouds Or sunny days And as I am tossed By life’s smallest storms You simply wait For me to come Once again To you I find I always end up there My heart broken and so bruised By all that I, A stubborn man Attempt to do To gain your love I still fail to understand That you Love me As you came  To set me free You love me As I am Completely. 06/10/25 clc

Because it hurts When little boys scrape their knees Crying out “Help me, please” Tears well up in clear blue eyes Don’t understand, reaching to find Comfort - just a Little relief Until the pain resides then they’re on their feet Running again, playing, loud  The pain forgotten like summer clouds That fade away 06/09/25 clc

O wake, my soul and linger In the moments as the dawn Gives way to the bustle I try to hold back a yawn My spirit sits in silence As my body starts to move I often forget that all I am is from you So as the skies turn clearest blue and coffee steams my cup I listen, I can hear a bird Announcing to its babies “time to get up” And I need that same revelation As old bones creak with that first stretch Realizing all I need is found In the depth of my heart where I am fed Not by worldly sustenance Or the worms,  like my friend the bird But through the living presence of the creator of this world So I shed my hesitations I cough, clearing my lungs Pray to a God I believe in as this day has begun… 06/06/25 clc “Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.” Psalms‬ ‭105‬:‭4‬ ‭NIV‬‬ “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words;...

Greater Love Found on Calvary Who would have guessed He’d end up on a tree They thought, as he raised Lazarus ‘Here Is Our Mighty King!’ They couldn’t recognize It was in death, we’d be set free Greater Love  Who made the blind man see He opened up hearts, as eyes Couldn’t understand all they would see With all this power Why did he speak of sacrifice? When demons fled his presence Why would he need to die? Greater Love  That set this prisoner (me) free A man, broken Longing to simply be Free from shame But that came at a price Paid by my savior He, crucified for Greater Love. 06/03/25 clc ““This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to y...

More a sinner  than a saint,  but there are some things  I ain’t  Anymore  Emptied the bottle  Lost my way  for a long, long time Felt alone  wanted to die But not Anymore Hated Jesus  didn’t want your golden rules Thought you all  were fools Until I fell Into hell I don’t want that  Anymore Found redemption in my darkest hours found life Learning how to stay alive without the darkness Anymore Each day I find I’m blessed  beyond anything He gives sun, warmth Everything Like little flowers  and birds that sing And even when there’s sorrow I can be hopeful In all life brings I am here I’m not ashamed Anymore 06/01/25 clc