I wrote this song Christmas Eve. It has yet to be performed. I was remembering some life experiences that only 'angels' helped me out of. You never know who might be an angel in your life. Mine have always been 'unlikely' angels, but angels they were.
Angels Are Among Us Every Day
When you've lost your way
You're scared and you're alone
In troubled times
At the dark end of the road
Someone comes along
Could be a stranger or a friend
To light your way with hope
And all the broken pieces mend
Have you met your angel today
To help and guide you on your way?
Angels are among us every day
To move the earth and sea
And calm the rising storm
In cold and fear
Arms to keep you safe and warm
Someone comes along
Could be a stranger or a friend
To light your way with hope
And all the broken pieces mend
Have you met your angel today
To help and guide you on your way?
Angels are among us every day
Give protection
Love and affection
Life can't break me
Love won't forsake me
In the most unlikely places
They're always waiting for us
Angels are among us every day
Friday, December 30, 2011
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Peace on Earth
The following are the words to one of the songs in my Christmas Cantata, Hope for Peace. This one is called Peace on Earth.
Peace on earth, when will there be peace on earth?
When we lay down our hate, when we lay down our pain
Join our hands and pray
When the light of the truth shines in everyone's hearts and love is the rule
There will be peace on earth
Peace on earth, the angels sang peace on earth
Good will to everyone, this night a Saviour comes
Bringing peace to all
When the light of the truth shines in everyone's hearts and love is the rule
There will be peace on earth
Unto us a child is born
Glad tidings of great joy are heard
Now we can all live in love
When the light of the truth shines in everyone's hearts and love is the rule
There will be peace on earth
Within each heart a candle glows
Within each voice a whisper grows
Hoping someday all will know
When the light of the truth shines in everyone's hearts and love is the rule
There will be peace on earth
Peace on earth, when will there be peace on earth?
When we lay down our hate, when we lay down our pain
Join our hands and pray
When the light of the truth shines in everyone's hearts and love is the rule
There will be peace on earth
Peace on earth, the angels sang peace on earth
Good will to everyone, this night a Saviour comes
Bringing peace to all
When the light of the truth shines in everyone's hearts and love is the rule
There will be peace on earth
Unto us a child is born
Glad tidings of great joy are heard
Now we can all live in love
When the light of the truth shines in everyone's hearts and love is the rule
There will be peace on earth
Within each heart a candle glows
Within each voice a whisper grows
Hoping someday all will know
When the light of the truth shines in everyone's hearts and love is the rule
There will be peace on earth
Friday, December 16, 2011
I've been going through a lot of old bits and pieces and found this. I can even remember where I was when I wrote this. Sometimes, I wish I could forget a few things, but I know I never will.
Limitations
Sometimes I just can’t get it out
And there it lies
Unsaid words with
Unmeant meanings
The unvoiced voices
In simple silence
Speaking still
The unspent coin gathers dust
Leaping limbs to crashing boughs
Fingers fumble
Tying knots
The package
Wrapped in paper
Brown and plain
The unthought thoughts
Of yesterday
The forgotten memory flashes forth like
Dazzling diamonds
Shining hard
But only snow
That melts with
Warmth and tender touch
To fall forgotten
The season turns and lives again
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Christmas Light
After a rather bleak fall, due to a situation that arose at work, I am off on leave for at least a month. My self esteem took a bit of a kicking, but I found out that I was not the only worker targetted. That doesn't make what happened any easier, but it helps in the healing process.
We are now entering the Yuletide season, and I am feeling the hope, peace, love, and joy of this magical time of year. My choir will be performing my original cantata, Hope for Peace, with guest soloists and there will be Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning services. I wrote this song last year for Christmas Eve.
We are now entering the Yuletide season, and I am feeling the hope, peace, love, and joy of this magical time of year. My choir will be performing my original cantata, Hope for Peace, with guest soloists and there will be Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning services. I wrote this song last year for Christmas Eve.
Christmas Light
A winter's night in deep December
We call it Christmas Eve
A night we've chosen to remember
Fulfilling of prophecy
They said a Saviour would be born
And now we call it Christmas Morn
Choosing the darkness of the winter
To celebrate new life
Chasing the shadows of December
To bring us Christmas light
See how the stars are twinkling in
The clear and cloudless sky
Shine on our earthly journeys to
Keep the light of hope alive
And as our hearts are warmed this night
We hold the key to love most bright
Choosing the darkness of the winter
To celebrate new life
Chasing the shadows of December
To bring us Christmas light
The snow is falling softly over
The dark and barren earth
The shadows of a bleak midwinter
Turn into hope of new birth
And as we join our hearts in faith
There will be hope on Christmas Day
Choosing the darkness of the winter
To celebrate new life
Chasing the shadows of December
To bring us Christmas light
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