Encouraged: maybe “Letters from Paul” will work! (demo of Romans)

Writing songs from the letters of Paul is getting slightly more promising.

I mentioned I deeply hated the first song I wrote.  Drawing from Romans, thinking about an NDIS client of mine who unfortunately died.

We’ll I’m quite happy with it now! But I put a bit more subtlety into the arrangement, a bit more humanity with some acoustic guitar, and worked at selling the vocal.

It’s still a weird song.

For each set of songs I’ve written for this 66 song project, each sub-album or EP, I have in mind a descriptive phrase, to lend a little bit of  stylistic unity to the collection. For “letters from Paul” I keep thinking “Busy Doing Nothing” (B-D-N), one of my all time fave beach boys songs.

I like the way that song is conversational and chill, sweet to the ear, and goes on a harmonic journey – there’s no chorus to speak of. Also, as a series of letters, I’d like this album’s songs to catch the sense of B-D-N documenting an ephemeral moment or a reflection. The B-D-N lyric references writing down thoughts, and writing a letter. I want to catch a moment of me riffing from my life on an aspect of St. Paul’s letter, not try to completely summarise it’s message.

Anyway, while I have that inspiration, I also feel I’m developing a strange genre of my own that is quite nerdy yet shallow and poppy. The songs so far aren’t shaping up objectively all that great, but they are satisfying me because I feel they’re saying what they should say. So I’m happy. Happy enough to attach the demo version here (final will be mixed and sung better, but pretty close to this, I think)

I usually write songs in the order in which they are in the Bible. That would have meant Corinthians came next.

But that’s the book with the famous “love is…” passage, which intimated me. And with my negativity (at the time) about the Romans project, which is about the most significant statement of Christianity in the whole bible, I seriously lost confidence in tackling one of the most treasured and famous passages!

Also a rough patch in life – Daisy situation lost some hope, most of our family is quite depressed.

So I jumped to the end of Paul’s letters. The Bible orders them basically according to how long they are. I never realised that! I thought the shorter ones would be less intimidating.

I skipped the last, Philemon, because I think the last song of a collection should give it closure, so I will actually write it last. That landed me on Titus.

I’ve started a song in 5/4 called “Good”. At this stage his going to be addressed to two fellows from my church, Sandy and Conrad, who are just good people, and generally be about how valuable good people are.

But in another unfamiliar move for me, I skipped on from that before I’ve finished it, and started on Timothy 1&2. (I’m doing the books with sequels as songs that are connected somehow).

That one is shaping up to be called “Complicated” and be about Kelly/the kids.

So the project is not dead at least, but I do really have to get going with finishing and releasing the rest of the old testament…

So here’s where “wobbly rob” is up to, and where it’ll stay for a while:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11KF02cPCyziwS6VR-4yJflg1GH-UyARY/view?usp=sharing

Songs

I’m going to try occasionally blogging progress on songs I’m writing.

This Bible blog has a kind of afterlife as I spasmodically attend my plan to write a song inspired by each book of the Bible.

That project has seriously languished. I haven’t publicly released any later than 2 Chronicles, even though I have demos for all but one of the old testament books and one from the new testament (Romans). That’s 22 semi completed songs.

I love recording them and making little videos for them, but it’s basically a waste of time/lower priority, compared to working, caring for my family, meeting up with friends, maintaining my house etc. It’s lower priority than virtually anything.

Yet… I can’t stop. I love writing songs, even ones extremely few will ever listen to. It’s like the crossword for me. A little bit of intellectual stimulation in my day. But it’s emotional, creative and spiritual as well, which for me recommends it as a pastime above the actual crossword.

The “new” project is Corinthians, a paired set of two songs for the first and second letters.

I’ve divided the Bible into collections, EPs and albums, so each section has its own flavour, reflecting the organisation of the book itself. So Corinthians is part of a larger album of letters from Paul.

Because I’m a bit of a literal thinker, my current aim is to take each as a jumping off point for a letter from me to someone. The idea is to say something about my own relationships, inspired by the message in the original letter.

Songwriting for me is a meeting of instinct and intellectual effort. That’s a big reason why I love it.

For example, Bob Dylan, when he wrote “like a rolling stone” had a great instinctual moment when he slammed some basic chords on his guitar and screamed “how does it feel!!! To be on your own!!!!” But then he has fun thinking of many dense carefully crafted phrases, cultural references and melodic variations, things like “you used to be so amused at Napoleon in rags and all the language that he used” (is that a poetic self portrait?)

Ditto me. However, my current fear is that the album plan, “letters from Paul” has strangled the instinctual bit of it with too many rules about how the songs will form a consistent album. Too much structure, too many constraints, I suspect.

Romans is currently really terrible, horrible, for that reason. It’s forced, awkward, ovethought and fundamentally not enjoyable to listen to. But I think there is something there, so I’m not going to abandon the song. But I’m going to move on and return to it later.

So, to Corinthians. My first idea is to write an open letter to all the Pastors I’ve known in churches thoughout my life. I was thinking of literally calling it “to Pastors”.

Unless I change my plan, all of the 13 letters to Paul songs will be called “To…” something

But I do need to stay flexible, because of the Romans debacle, and I’m open to revisiting the album concept to allow myself a bit more wriggle room for primal screaming.

Revelation 22

An invitation. The Bible comes full circle, and we are back in Eden. God is right here among us. The river of life flows through the new city. On both sides of the river is the tree of life, bearing 12 crops of fruit, and its leaves are for the healing of nations. It reminded me of Psalm 1, a tree planted by water that does not wither.

And the invitation is for the thirsty to come. Come, wash your robes and drink freely of the water of life. Who wouldn’t?

People are accountable for what they do. Outside the city are murderers, sexually immoral, idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices the dark arts or even falsehood. So, but for the grace of God, everyone. But I’m thankful that by that grace I’m someone who tries not to.

I remember my tatty adolescent NIV Bible, the back cover fell off and for the longest time this page hung on by a thread, the last page of the Bible that says that anyone who takes words away from the scroll of prophesy will have the blessings in it taken away, lol.

It’s the last chapter of my Bible blog, though I have a fair bit still to do in summarising books and preparing to write 13 songs about the letters of Paul. I would be interested to do a timeline too, it’s been quite a time in world history.

My life hasn’t gone full circle, it’s still a grind and a bit of a random mess. Maybe I shouldn’t have lost that last page of my Bible. But I do like having so many thoughts about scripture recorded. It’s enjoyable and helpful to go back and read what I’ve said about a tag or a passage at a certain point in time.

Maybe it will be a voice for the kids later in their life. I would love it if my parents had left more of their thoughts behind other than in my selective memory. I think so, maybe…

This chapter, I just loved the relaxed warmth of it. Abundance and healing. The exclusion jars me as ever, but equally, how can those things be in the presence of God?

“The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come!’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come!’ Let the one who is thirsty come” Gonna link that judee still song.

I read her lyrics, she traverses scriptures, looking at the various responses to the invitation. Those whose love does not endure are in the cold outer darkness. Those who are vulnerable and suffering are lifted by the trumpet sound. Those who, with Jesus, are unjustly rejected, who are coming last when scoundrels come first, they see God’s mercy shine. Wherever your light, keep it on.

“The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen.”

Revelation 21

Everything is new!

I wrote a killer, if I do say so myself, song about this passage. I might try and record a version for this entry.

At that point I was smitten by finally arriving at the “good bit” of revelation. The bit where evil is gone and heaven happens: “no more death, no more mourning crying or pain when everything is new”

At the time it seemed like a long haul through the “weird bit” to get there. And, reading my cry of “it’s all too hard” in the last entry, perhaps nothing much has changed.

But I’ve woken up with some clarity, I think. Or at least, some hints that feel like they might head towards clarity…

Point one, this is very culturally remote. It’s a shock at this point in the Bible to remember that it’s a 2000 year old text. The gospels, Acts and some of Paul’s letters lull you into forgetting how old they are. The eternal human dilemmas are so fresh. The characters of Jesus’ very natural and ordinary disciples, the members of the early churches struggling with their egos and diversity to form loving, supporting communities… These stories are instantly relatable and the cultural distance melts away.

Suddenly there’s these layers of imagery from the old testament, which to the audience of the day of course was the only testament. When I have read about the new Jerusalem/temple in Ezekiel, Zachariah and Isaiah, I filter it all for a very different culture. At the futuristic end of the new testament, we’re thrown back to that place, which may explain why this book has inspired so many mad ideas in attempts to relate it directly to modern experience without enough filtering.

Point two, the “good bit” is connected to the “hard bit”, same imagery part of the same narrative. Even though God is wiping away every tear and there is no more pain – wonderful, wonderful images – it’s not actually that much easier to understand than the chapters that led up to it.

I always feel a bit of that during the description of the new Jerusalem descending to a new sea-less earth, a gigantic cube, somewhere between the size of Australia and India, and reaching higher than the highest satellites into space. With 12 giant pearls for gates, and gold streets. Would it literally be a nice place to live?

Last point: the visions are all directed at believers. It’s all for us who understand about the good news of Jesus, and God’s intention for humanity …in the future, and starting now.

When it gets to saying there are no liars there, you start to wonder if anyone could make it. The doctrine of saving grace isn’t reiterated to comfort me at that point.

But it’s built into the framing of the book. It’s written to churches. It’s SO not a guide to who’ll be in or out, it’s much more of a guide to living now as a child of God. How our often thankless works of grace in this unjust world are already, and will be, the fabric of God’s beautiful eternal kingdom

Those points made, I’m no less smitten with what’s there. God with us, bringing light and sustenance justice and love. The gates always open, inclusive to all the world, and all that is glorious of humanity. No more death, no more mourning or pain, every tear gently wiped away by God. A vision of everything new that is about such intimate comfort.

Yes, it can be all so hard now. But so worth it, to know the Lord God, to be in the arms of our creator.

I’ve included a record three (3!) songs: mine, a beautiful impressionistic choir anthem by Bainton that I enjoyed singing as a kid …it was my first introduction to the passage. Also “let the river run” by Carly Simon, based on phrases from a Walt Whitman poem, a moving performance of it, Carly and her kids, at the 911 memorial. Let all the dreamers wake the nation!

Revelation 20

The millennium. A notoriously difficult passage that retells the final battle, or maybe tells another final battle.

For the record I think I believe the a-millenialist position is most likely. But I’m going to work at being ok with being wrong.

The millennium is set up in the opening verses. An angel binds Satan and throws him into the abyss, seals it over. For 1000 years Satan cannot deceive the nations.

Only then is there a final battle. Satan is let free again for a bit, and prepares for battle. Like the final battle in the last chapter, this one ends before it starts with Satan being thrown into the lake of fire.

The Abyss is a holding pen for Satan, lake of fire is the hotel California… Once you’ve checked in, you can never leave.

Pre-millennial believes Jesus’ second coming will be the start of the millennium. Post-millennial believes the start of the millennium will happen at some point in human history (ie: Satan bound) and Christ will return at the end of it.

No theory requires 100% dedication to it being exactly 1000 years. All positions are consistent with it simply describing a long time. However Post- and Pre-, but not A- have adherents who do believe in a literal 1000 year period.

Post-millennial (aka Jesus comes at the end) has given rise to some judgement day cults, because you can take a momentous event in history and add 1000 years, and figure the exact day of Christ’s return. Apart, I suppose, from Jesus’ own teaching that no one will know the day or hour.

A-millenial guesses that Jesus’victory on the cross and resurrection at Easter was when Satan was bound. To them the millennium describes the current period, before the return of Christ. So obviously it’s at least closer to 2000 years.

The end result of all three positions is the same: a final victory over evil.

The end result of us, human beings, I found a little bit elusive:

There is a group of martyrs, here particularly the beheaded, who go straight to be with Jesus’ and skip the final battle and/or judgement. The idea of martyrs being privileged has come back a few times in the book’s visions. I guess it was especially relevant and comforting to the first audience of the letter.

There is a group of nations who gather ominously around Jerusalem after satan is unbound. God’s fire descends and devours them and Satan is thrown into the lake of fire for deceiving them. Is it better to be devoured by God’s fire than the lake of fire? Is the lake reserved only for Satan?

In the next part of the vision, earth and heaven flee before God. Death and Hades give up the dead for judgement, and then are tossed into the lake. So: no earth or heaven, and the fiery lake contains Satan, death and Hades, (which is a catch all for the place where the dead are, and the power of death).

At this point it’s seeming pretty universalist. The lake of fire doesn’t actually have any humans in it.

But then the books are opened. There are a bunch that contain all the deeds of mankind, and another which is the book of life.

People who are not in the book of life go to the lake of fire. But everyone’s deeds are recorded and judged. This is a process of truth and justice.

Being written in the book of life as we know from the rest of the new testament, comes through God’s grace. Being judged for your deeds doesn’t really affect it. But this judgement is still a painful process. Maybe this is like being saved through fire like in 1 Cor 3. Though in Jesus’ telling of a similar judgement day, where the sheep are separated from the goats, there seems to be less reference to Grace.

It’s all so hard! Who is in the book of life and why? Who isn’t and why not? Deep and unanswered questions. But it seems it’s not everyone.

There will be justice reckoning and pain. There will be love, there will be an end to this era. Death will be in the lake of fire.

In other news, my first two days working in the church office felt long and disorienting, like stating any new job, but it’s probably going to be ok.

Kelly is still in a stand off with her work. She wont return unless they address the chronic bullying. They either have to fire her or do something, but they are doing neither. So weird! She hasn’t been to work in weeks, but she will get paid for Easter Friday and Monday holiday, because she’s still officially on the payroll.But disturbing for her.

I feel dumb, like my brain isn’t working, is it cognitive overload or am I just too old and tired?

Praying for wisdom.

Revelation 13

What would it take for my faith to crumble?

This letter is written to Christians probably suffering the second persecution by Roman emperors. Nero was first, but this was probably written during the rule of Domitian a few decades later.

The first readers would have had little doubt that the beast from the sea that emerges here was a vision of one of those emperors. Indeed the beast is depicted as having recovered from a mortal wound, which could have implied a continuity of both emperors.

The beast is identified as doing the work of the dragon from the last chapter, Satan. And there is a third monster, the beast of the earth. Together they make a kind of unholy Trinity: anti-God, anti-Christ and anti-Holy Spirit.

Daniel spoke of a series of beasts, which equate to the Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman empires. The animals – bear, leopard and lion turn up there and here, so it’s an unmistakable cross reference. Daniel’s prophesy was literally coming true all around the original audience of this letter.

In the vision, everyone is forced to worship the Empire/Emperor as a god, and wear prayers and signs of worship on forehead and arms, as the Jews did for Jehovah. This blasphemy is the notorious number of the beast, 666.

It possibly spells emperor Nero’s name. But also the drama of Revelation hangs off 3 “woes”: 3 seven-stage narratives of judgement that reach their worst at the sixth stage: 6, 6 and 6. If it’s the number of imperfection, it’s a hopeful number. As bad as it will get before it gets better.

This beast can kill though. It also controls commerce. It’s totalitarian. It will destroy you if you don’t participate.

Would that be bad enough? What would it take for my faith to crumble?

The only template of response the Christians have is the slain lamb.

I watched the Bible project summary of revelation again today. How good it is! They keep emphasising that all we have in response to these powerful evils is an attitude of humble sacrifice.

As it says here in verse 10: “This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.”

First mine then Kelly’s faith in the Salvos has crumbled. She finally intends to leave her job as a sales assistant at the end of this month.

She has been destroyed partly for not participating in the culture of theft, putting it bluntly. She’s been a true believer in recycling, in using her considerable talent to get the very best return for the Salvos on all the donations given by people in good faith… respecting that position of trust. She’s been a loved community figure, who local people confide in and return to with affection.

For that she’s been bullied and attacked mercilessly. Her co workers have demanded she be fired and she’s been undermined, suffered petty mistreatment, unfairly loaded with all the hard work, mocked for being stressed, treated with appalling sexism and ageism. By the staff! It’s been a horror show.

And her faith has crumbled.

Her Christian faith will survive I think, battered and knocked around. But salvos has become a beast.

And MY faith? Still processing that.

I had a bad experience with salvos too, though I still love what they represent. But why do they keep breaking our hearts?

I put my bad experience down to a weird and specific personality clash. But maybe they dance too close to the beast. Can you partner with the beast? Can you and the beast live-and-let-live? The stores rely heavily on the managers having a sense of mission, and not being ethically challenged. It’s pivotal. Without that (and it’s been notably absent) everything falls apart.

I really don’t think this chapter is mostly about predicting the advent of a specific apocalyptic beast. It’s encouraging a group of Christians to hold firm, humbly, against their beast and remember that God is in control.

Amen.

Revelation 11

Big hiatus, second attempt at the chapter. I’m crawling towards the finish line of my Bible reading odyssey.

“A time, times and half a time”. 1+2+1/2=3.5

3.5 is a strange theme of this chapter. The number is mentioned a crazy number of times. It’s consciously intended to evoke that phrase.

The phrase came from Daniel. He asked how long until one of his visions come true, and that was God’s answer.

It’s one of many dense and layered references to earlier scriptures here. Those are what torpedoed my first version of this blog entry, I got lost trying to identify every Easter egg. It was never going to end!

“A time” is a biblical event – as I see it at least. Eg: the near and literal realisation of prophesy. In Daniel it was a dream of several beasts, or empires, culminating in Rome.

“Times” are what we are in, an indeterminate period in which we understand or puzzle over the larger metaphysical meaning of the biblical record. In which we sometimes wonder if God is still speaking and acting.

But there will be an interruption, an end. “Half a time.”

That’s the Bible’s narrative of history.  Event, long break, event. Time has a beginning, a middle and an end (which we won’t predict).

It’s a formula for us to use the biblical record of god’s intervention in the world to sustain us until god’s kingdom is fully arrived.

Another key reference is to Zerubbabel, who began the somewhat depressing work of rebuilding the temple after the Jewish exile and the destruction of Jerusalem. It was wonderful that it happened at all, but disappointing enough that anyone who could remember the grandeur of Solomon’s temple wept.

The prophet Zechariah has a vision that shows the little sad second temple plan being anointed and fed by god’s holy spirit. It’s not merely a sad building, it’s Kingdom work, it will echo down time to Jesus, and to the Christian church.

The chapter of revelation ends with a vision of the temple in heaven, with the ark of the covenant in it. The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our God, and he will reign forever…

So it is with our sometimes sad efforts to do God’s will.

I’ve been quite sad, and putting in lots of effort that seems unrewarding. It’s encouraging to think that it is annointed, that the Spirit moves in it. That there will be justice at the end.

Kelly has been dominated by the frustration of injustice. Her work is corrupt, she is picked on for not joining in, and a group have decided to get rid of her. She is trying to survive, trying to get justice. I support her. But she is being torn apart by it.

The chapter describes a sad prophetic effort that ends with god’s true messengers being destroyed. Until justice comes and they are called to God. It’s simple really. Hang in there!

Praying for Kelly, my brother John, family, people from church, people I care for professionally.

James 5, part 2

I entered James 6 into the search bar of bible gateway this morning and got nil result. Wha? It’s only got 5 chapters! James certainly didn’t have Paul’s sense of closure. I had stuff I was putting off for 6, and I don’t feel ready for 1 Peter.

So little bible left, what will I do? I might re-blog the new testament, as I write songs for it. That’s one option anyway.

I’m also interested in surveying the world and life events that happened during the years of this blog through the scriptures. Produce a sort of event-based chronological index. I’m interested in the way scripture collides with a time and a place to produce meaning. It’s always culturally contextualised. If truth is light, time and place are like a prism that refracts the light in infinite variety.

Then, having made my point I could blog the whole thing again, with completely different interpretations of everything, as my mind quietly fails.

And of course I’ll die at some point, and my flesh will rot meaninglessly in the cold ground because this whole religion thing will have turned out to be a fever dream, lol.

But anyway, reading the end of James again, as the end, he ends on prayer. Christians in churches, praying. So new treatment. And so uncomplicated to emulate.

I don’t think I am universalist. But I’m not sure I’m not. It came up again because I wanted to discuss the idea in home group, but then the discussion went sort of “of course none of us believe in hell” which I wasn’t expecting or ready for.

But also I think it was more nuanced than that. Mark, our minister, who is in our group, seems to have done deep thought about it since, and he wants to return to it which will be interesting.

Anyway, I raise it because here James’ two closing verses are:

My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

v.19-20

Score one for eternal life not being the universal destiny of mankind, if that counts as a score. The whole thrust of the book has been that the hard yards, the Christian suffering, the work, the self restraint, the difficult love, the rejection of wealth and privilege, demanding equality and justice. It’s all worth it. Stick with it, it means something. Kingdom work, advocating for god’s vision for the world, is vital work.

When I say I’m not sure that I’m not universalist it’s because I haven’t divined god’s ultimate plans from anywhere in the bible, really. How all-encompassing is Jesus’ victory over death? Is it destroyed for all for ever? We aren’t to know! …that’s the only thing made somewhat clear, if anything, I think.

But you can’t miss that God is a God of discipline, of judgement, of punishment, of suffering. God gives and God takes away, as Job says.

The Israelites reached the promised land, but none, not even Moses, of those who crossed the sea in god’s first great template of the chosen people’s salvation, none of that generation entered the promised land. Because of their rebellion.

Death might be destroyed, but it exists for our generations in time, and time exists within god’s eternity. Pain is real, evil is real. It has victims. It’s destruction doesn’t wipe it from the fabric of god’s universe.

Honest universalism has to encompass the reality of our sin, guilt and the justice of blood punishment. God may have removed it from us as far as the East is from the West, but it’s over there somewhere. It existed once, so it’s existence exists forever, and perhaps hell is at least some aspect of the reality of that.

I honestly don’t know, or perhaps can’t articulate what I know. My thoughts on all this, and the expression of them, are still evolving. But I’m not sure it matters, as long as sin, rebellion and evil matter and are critically worth fighting either way.

I didn’t get that well paid full time job doing marketing for scripture union. I heard yesterday after my shift, but I suspected as much. I was a contender, but I don’t actually know that much conventional about marketing, or management. I’m more of a communications guy, in a passive kind of way.

I’m a good support worker. I’d just do that, except it locks Kelly into working too much at salvos so we can pay the bills. I can’t do enough support hours in a week to support the family, it’s too emotionally exhausting.

So I’ll keep looking, and/or thinking of side hustles. I am feeling old, and jaded. It’s hard to summon the energy to be peachy keen about a fresh corporate mission.

Damn empathy, I have so much of it, it always breaks the invisible wall of professional detachment and makes trouble.

Anyway, I could go on and on, and will no doubt. But not today. No time to pray? Ha ha sorry James!

Not abandoned!

Just a note to say I haven’t abandoned my plan to blog the bible, (nor the God that inspired the book!) even though I’ve had the largest gap between entries in years. I’m still working quite carefully on songs based on the minor prophets. I suspect I won’t feel ready to read Hebrews until they are done. They are connected really.

Hebrews, I hope, will make more sense if I have a practical appreciation of what God’s words to the minor prophets added to the picture. I’ve been listening to N T Wright a bit. The two most recent episodes of his “Ask… anything”podcast are great at taking you right into how strange it was to see Jesus as Messiah, what a leap Paul and the author of Hebrews made.

And for me the leap back, to engage with what the minor prophets were saying, is certainly weird and engaging too. I can’t say I’ll have an answer in a neat box of what those writings are saying to me now. It’s a bit fuzzy and messy. But they are sparking lots of parallels, interesting thoughts and new prayers.

News out today about the census, and the galloping rise of “no religious affiliation” in Australia. If one message comes out of the prophets though, it’s to be chill about the reversals. God uses them too, almost more.

I’m missing processing my life via entries. But equally, I was getting to a place where it felt repetitive. I suppose too much self reflection, as well as too little, can start to drain life of living.

It’s a year for doing and maturing. There’s certainly a strange level of change still happening in me. Do we ever grow up?

I’ve turned 60, the government has changed, from Morrison to Albanese, the horrors of war, the pressures of inflation. It’s all happening and without my awesome reflections!

They will be back, old habits die hard. ‘Til then, God bless.

Songs

My hobby is songwriting – I may have referred to it deep in the early posts when I was recovering from the trauma of being self employed longer than I had the energy for it. I needed a conscious “me” thing to get a better work/life balance, and I’ve always written music since childhood.

Its a bit of an insular hobby. Maybe I can add performing at some point in my life. But I like it for now because I do it any time, and am completely free in my own creativity – or blandness as the case may be. Something I do that is not shaped by any brief or expectations other than my own.

I’m slowly, very slowly, writing a song inspired by each of these bible books I’ve read, and I may sprinkle a few more of my songs through the blog too.

If you see reference to 7pm Praise Team, that’s just a band I planned once. Maybe I’ll make it a real band one day – probably not… but the account was there. And it could yet prove useful if I ever convince someone with a better voice than mine to sing one of my songs…

All the entries with songs will collect at the link below – enjoy, if you like pop and can get used to my voice.

https://inheritingtheearth.wordpress.com/tag/song/