When I survey

I've added a new song.  

It's a new recording of When I Survey The Wondrous Cross.

God does not cause suffering.  He does not stand idly by whilst pain rains down around us.  Instead, He stands with us, beside us, comforting and embracing us.

And though the pain hurts, He feels it too, suffering with us and He will never abandon us.

As it says in Romans 8:

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 

36As it is written: 
   "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."^[l] 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[m] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

This is when the grief comes

Where the shadows fall and the tears run dry

When there are no words to still my beating heart

Sleep won't come despite closed eyes

Tears won't fall despite the emptiness

My only prayer is that maybe she knew You

My only prayer is that maybe now she is asleep 

Safe in Your arms

For You are a hope stronger than the grave

You are what I'll hold on to

All I can do now is kneel and pray

And as I do

My tears fall

The Goodness of God

I would just like to share something amazing that has happened.  I have been particularly bothered by the fact that as of November we would be needing a bigger car.  With a fourth child on the way I really need to get a 7 seater people carrier type thing.  

I had been assessing how much I was likely to get for my amazing Volvo 850, but unfortunately that was less than £1000 which doesn't really leave much for a new (to us) car.  

I came home from work today to news that someone has decided to give us £3000 in order to buy a new car.

God is amazing! Ever faithful and ever true!

Lullaby

I've just recorded a new song.  I wrote it as a lullaby for my children as they often wanted me to play guitar to them before going to bed, but unfortunately all the songs they wanted me to play were too upbeat and tended to get them fired up instead of relaxed and ready for sleep.  

One night I was thinking about how Miriam often gets up in the middle of the night and just asks for a cuddle and this led me to thinking about how we should be with God.  He loves me more than I love my children and He is more than happy for me just to crawl into his arms and lie there, with all the problems of the world drowned out by his loving arms.

I wrote this song for so my children would know that they too are always in His arms.