The Bacon Song

This one is about life, love, the soul, etc.

Letter From Heaven

So, apparently "Letter From Heaven" is a really popular song title. Whatever... this one was inspired by one of my greatest sins. Here's the lyrics:

So many Christians
judge others but don't judge themselves
they diagnose sicknes
but give no presrciption for help

I doubt that's what heaven's like,
when I ge there I'll send you a letter
Don't be afraid to die
I promise up there it's much better

We think that it's honesty
but honestly it's only our pride
Sin's what comes out of your mouth
not what you put inside


I doubt that's what heaven's like,
when I ge there I'll send you a letter
Don't be afraid to die
I promise up there it's much better
No that's not what heaven's like
I'll tell you when I get there
I'm not afraid to die
No, I can't wait to get there

(perhaps too much "wowing")

On Earth as in heaven,
that's how Jesus taught us to pray
If that's the goal
then something down on earth's gotta change

Why is the Universe Amazing?

In a lapse of judgment only explainable by stupidity, I went running after midnight tonight along a high school track. There were no streetlights, car lights, or people- just a dark track around a dark football field and a slightly intimidated runner. After a few laps, a silhouette appeared in the moonlight. I audibly “wowed” to the figure, a stargazer, but kept running as if I hadn’t just made a fool of myself. However, it wasn’t long before God compelled me to conversate (not a word) with the stargazer.

 “What are you doing?” I asked him, now stopping.

“Just looking at the stars.”

Sometimes, we have to take the first step towards being intentional. This was one of those times.

“I came out here to pray,” I awkwardly blurted out, “and felt compelled to talk to you”.

The man gave me a condescending smile, but I had come to far not to continue.

“Why are you staring at the stars?”

“I think they’re amazing,” the man awed. I asked him why the stars were amazing and he responded, “because… they are huge and distant… and they are made out of the same atoms that we are made of, which is awesome.”

Agreeing, I added, “Why do humans think that stuff is amazing? I mean, people have looked at the stars for forever. And not only the stars, we are amazed by the human body, and all the complexities in our universe. Why does that stuff amaze us? I can’t think of a scientific reason for it.” The man stumbled around for a few seconds trying to come up with an explanation. Without delay, I asked him, “Can I tell you why I think we are amazed at all this stuff?”

“Go for it.”

“I think that God made us in his image. So all people, even those that don’t believe he exists, are programmed a certain way. When we marvel at the stars in the sky, the veins in a hand, or the leaves on a tree, it is a compulsion to worship God. Worship may not be our intention, but we can’t help it because we’re programmed to do it.”

The conversation went on, and I actually got to share the gospel with the man, but this story is not all about my conversation- it is about a message between author and reader. I may be wrong about all of this; why do you think that humans are uncontrollably in awe of the universe? I can’t think of a logical scientific explanation.

Ask Yourself Why

Look up what do you see
Look down what can you see
Look out what do you see

Are we animals
Do we have souls
Are we even here

We think that we know it all but we don't know ourselves
How can we know anything if we don't ask ourselves why

Why do we know what's right and
Why do we know what's wrong and
Why do we even care

There is some motivation
In this starving nation
But we're all eating the wrong kind of food

Give yourself some time
And think about what made you alive
Read between the lines
And ask yourself why

Give yourself some time
How can you sit around and let the world pass you by
Read between the lines
Maybe this song is more than just a rhyme

The Crush

There is a pretty girl in one of my classes. I can tell that she doesn't love Jesus, but my heart tries to look past that and pretend that I don't really know for sure. But I do. Not a big deal- this stuff happens. It motivated for a pretty ok love song, though

God is alive

I feel like the description of this song is done in the video. I have not posted on this blog in awhile and have two more songs to post, but those can wait.

Here's the lyrics:

Rain down
I'm reaching my hands to you
Rain down
Fill them with your rain

Reign now
You're the king of kings
Reign now
Sit on the throne of my heart

You and you alone
Can heal this heart of stone

When I call you you answer
I've had no prayer unanswered
My life is burning
Cool it with the shadow of your wings

Somehow you love me
You've made my blind eyes see
It's not like I'm deserving
Halleluia, God is alive
God is alive

Marriage

the day that I got married
was the best day of my life
the old part of me died that day
when husband joined with wife

there were no bridesmaids nor groomsmen
for me it was unplanned
twas the best day of my life, still
even without a band

sometimes I look back on that day
and how great it had been
it symbolized our lives together
the day we conquered sin

it started out exciting
this new life we had made
it stirred up a great passion
that grew deeper as I prayed

buy then I got so comfortable
and I ignored my spouse
I made so many foolish choices
when I left the house

but marriage is a covenant
that day we made a promise
our love is unconditional
and can't be broken by this

our love has been a journey
taken one day at a time
I look back on how he's led
and can't describe it with a rhyme

I might marry again someday
and I'll write another verse
but my first love is my shepherd
Yes, I married the Lord first

The Guy

On days like these, I sit on the porch

And write poems that’re

filled with remorse

I watch the kids jump in piles of leaves

Close my eyes and recall the memories

I wonder if she remembers her song

It wasn’t very good

Or  very long

I played it for her under the trees

A song about our memories

I hope she didn’t forget our first date

I felt so awkward

But she could relate

And when she held my hand, she put me at ease

This is just one of my memories

Does she remember the night that we first kissed

It was both our first times

And we almost missed

The stars were more beautiful than we could believe

It’s one of my fondest memories

But there were times when we would fight

But you’d always kiss me

And it’d be all right

We seemed to have so many of these

And they left so many memories

I wonder what has happened to her

Has she found a new love

Are things as they were

But she’s always besides me when I write these

She lives right here in my memories

Maybe tonight I’ll go to Jane

Throw a rock at her window

And kiss her in the rain

Tonight’s the night that this will cease

And we could make more memories

The Girl

The enemy is under her porch

She’s afraid to open up the door

Every day the same as the one before

Oh, what a life she has

And when she wakes up late at night

The enemy is clear in sight

It’s looking at her strait in the eyes

And she wished she’d never looked

She could be doing so much more

But now she’s laying on the floor

Refusing to open up that door

She’s tired of the world

Now she’s just a hollow shell

She isn’t doing very well

At least as far as I can tell

She never leaves that house

Her future used to be so bright

Up until that stormy night

When they had that awful fight

She misses Jack so much

The enemy has her figured out

He’s chewed her up and spit her out

If you haven’t already figured it out

The enemy is time

She wishes that she could go back

Back when she had her life on track

But the enemy has got her trapped

Life only goes one way

Every night she goes upstairs

And glances at the empty chairs

In the mirror, a woman stares

With teary eyes and messy hairs

But she knows at least one man that cares

So before bed she says her prayers

She prays that he’ll come back

And kisses her in the rain

This Life Is

Let's Kiss in the Rain

Simplicity

The universe is massive
and massively complex
It's not the kind of universe
that mere words can express


First let's look at music
there's millions of songs
fast ones, slow ones, many short ones,
while some are hours long


Now let's look at color
there are infinite of these
I can fill a whole computer
with variants of greens


If the universe is physics
I'd have to clench my teeth
to think of the equations
that it hides underneath


So to think about the universe
seems like a waste of time.
It seems like it'd be easier
to leave it all behind


But music's actually simple
If you just zoom out
There are only 12 notes that
a song can have throughout


And color is even easier
just look how it behaves
color's just a measure of
the curviness of waves


Physics may seem infinite
with equations in excess
but scientists've narrowed it down
to 4, or maybe less


The universe is simple
Because God made it so
He is a most efficient God
more wise than we could know


So why would God make life complex
why would he make us lost
Life is more than being good
and more than following laws


Don't stress about the little things
since Jesus died for you
just love God with all your heart
that's all you have to do!