Songs of Safety
Well, not too much is going on. I spent Saturday evening trying to finish a song I wrote a few years ago. I’ve got a few more parts to finish out and add that one last element that adds the “okay now it’s done” factor. I’m not quite sure what it is yet but that’s the fun of it I guess - I’ll know it when I hear it.
It’s just me singing (with LOTS of pitch correction) but I want to write more songs and see if they are viable to build out with a real singer and players. I figure I need to be faithful with what I have instead of just adding more tools that cost a bunch. Hopefully by then I’d have sold the mixer and could get a used Motif-Rack ES for much less.
I’m not quite sure what I have to say musically yet but I think from the song that I’m finishing up and the ideas that are in my head that it will be about how the Kingdom is not safe. It seems to be an under-lying theme for me - even from the song written back in September of 2003. I think I can articulate a bit more about the topic now that I’m further along in the process.

February 22nd, 2005 at 9:17 am
Its hard to divorce your brain from the notion of comfort, given society’s continual pursuit of it. Jesus made it clear to those that wanted to follow Him that it is not easy.
Matthew 8:20 and Luke 9:58 and surrounding context lay it out nicely. Being in and not of the world is a constant battle for me. If I don’t take up my cross in the morning by devoting myself to Christ daily, daily I am pulled away from Him.