| I found my Bethel Audition cd. I
didn't get a scholarship... but it's nice to hear myself play, (when I
was much better.) ... I've been working on composing music. It's going
fairly well. I have a few solid things down... it still needs work.
I really hope I can do this.
Still, it's comforting to hear things I've composed and arranged before. Everyone seemed to like O' the Deep Deep Love of Jesus.
It's always been my favourite hymn, it's just... powerful. When Bill
Backlin asked me what hymn I wanted to arrange, I chose that one right
away. It has a peace, a power, and a resolve about it. Like it's name,
it really captures how deep Christ's love was for us. I remember
playing it for the recording like it was yesterday. I could see the
path of Jesus: His struggles in the garden, the betrayal from Judas,
His beating's by the hands of the Jews... Suffering the whips of the
Romans, struggling to carry the cross, and the final conclusion, His
crucifixion.
I have always loved this hymn:
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me!
Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy love
Leading onward, leading homeward to Thy glorious rest above!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, spread His praise from shore to shore!
How He loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, nevermore!
How He watches o'er His loved ones, died to call them all His own;
How for them He intercedeth, watcheth o'er them from the throne!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, love of every love the best!
'Tis an ocean vast of blessing, 'tis a haven sweet of rest!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, 'tis a heaven of heavens to me;
And it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee!
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