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Week 14: Beskermer van Israel
One of my favourite verses in the Bible is Ps 121:4 that says “Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep”. This verse has calmed my racing thoughts many times assuring me that God is in control. So many times over the past year we’ve been bombarded with scary news and I’ve felt overwhelmed many times, but time and time again God has reminded me that He is not sleeping and is still in control. This gives me immense hope. I wrote the verse and chorus a few weeks ago and just didn’t get around to recording the idea. This week I completed the song and also…
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Week 10 – Hier by ons (vers)
We all have songs that we love while we’re writing them and then they turn back to pumpkins when dailight comes. This week I thought I finally had a verse for a great chorus I wrote awhile ago. But, alas, in dailight they did not seem such a good match after all. One thing I have learned, though, is that no lyric or song idea ever is a waste. It might just come back to you in a co-writing session as you search for a verse or some lyrics. Sometimes you can take lyrics and just write a new melody later and suddenly it works. So, here is this week’s…
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Week 5: I will remember
This week’s song was inpired by Psalm 57:10 (Msg) that says: “I will remember every time I look up. Every cloud is a flag to your faithfulness”. I love the idea that we can look at different things in nature and it reminds us of attributes of God or what he has told us in the past. When I first got the idea for the song I wrote about a page of ideas for possible lyric angles. None of it rhymed, it was just thoughts around the topic. I then went to the piano and wrote the first verse and chorus. This was end September. For me the hardest thing…
