June 2024

- RESTORE MY SOUL -

In loving memory of Travis Wirth and for his mother Mary

Lead me beside the water so still | Let me catch my breath | Let me drink my fill

Let me lie in fields of green | Where only gentle breezes blow
I’ll reach out my empty hands | For the cup that overflows

Restore my soul, Restore my soul
Restore my soul, Restore my soul

I’ve stood too long here in these shadows | These valley walls are all I see
I need the skilled eyes of my Shepherd | Now my vision’s failing me

Then I will run and not be weary | I will walk and not faint
I will soar with wings of eagles | In God alone is my strength

Surely goodness and mercy | Will find their way to me
And I will live with them forever | I will have no more need

The Lord is my Shepherd | He is my God
I will live with Him forever | I shall not want

- IF I COULD -

Isaiah 61:1-3

You open prison doors
And let the captives run free
To feel the grass beneath their feet
And the sunlight on their faces

If I could I’d shine as bright as the sun
I’d shine all over You
And the whole world would see
How lovely You are to me

You comfort all who mourn
You give them beauty for ashes
Then You look inside their heart
And heal the broken places
If I could

-YOUR UNFAILING LOVE-

Psalm 143:8-10 NIV

Words: David/Music: Sherri

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love
For I have put my trust in you
Show me the way I should go
For to you I lift up my soul

Rescue me from my enemies, O LORD
For I hide myself in you
Teach me to do your will for you are my God;
May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground

While I live, while I have my being
I will sing praises, sing praises to my God
While I am alive, while I have my being
I will sing praises, sing praises to my God
While I am alive, while I have my being
I’ll sing praises, sing praises to my God

While we live, while we have our being
We sing praises, sing praises, to our God
While we are alive, while we have our being
We sing praises, sing praises to our God
While we are alive, while we have our being
We sing praises, sing praises to our God

Praise, to the One who always loves us
We give thanks, for our hope is in You, Jesus
You lift up our eyes and shine on a broken life

Praise, We sing praise

-WHILE WE ARE ALIVE-

Psalm 146

This is a painting my mom made in college. I look at it every day and thought I would share it with you . :)

- LOVE NEVER FAILS - 

1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-8 (NASB)

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have  the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I  have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned,
but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly;

It does not seek its own, is not provoked,
Does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

- ABBA FATHER -

Abba, Father 
Hear the voices of 
Your sons and Your daughters 
Abba, Father 
Hear the praises that we bring

- YOUR UNFAILING LOVE -

Psalm 143:8-10
A Psalm of David

Let the morning bring me word
Of Your unfailing love,
For I have put my trust in You.

Teach me to do Your will,
For You are my God;

May Your good Spirit
Lead me on level ground

-IN THE SHELTER-

PSALM 61:1-4 (NKJV)

HEAR MY CRY, O GOD; ATTEND TO MY PRAYER

FROM THE END OF THE EARTH I WILL CRY TO YOU

WHEN MY HEART IS OVERWHELMED

LEAD ME TO THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER THAN I

FOR YOU HAVE BEEN A SHELTER FOR ME

A STRONG TOWER FROM THE ENEMY

I WILL ABIDE IN YOUR TABERNACLE FOREVER

I WILL TRUST IN THE SHELTER OF YOUR WINGS

Click here for the printable PDF of Romans 8:38-39

- THESE THINGS DON’T CHANGE -

Be still my soul / I can see the horizon / A cold cold wind is about to blow

Be still my soul / I will not falter / Faith believes when it cannot see
This I know

Nothing will ever take this love away / The grass will wither and the flower fade / These things don’t change

Bless the Lord oh my soul / I’m stepping off of this familiar shore
I’ll put to test the things I know / This I know

By surprise He’ll catch me by surprise / He will burst right through the skies / And we will fly away

Height, depth, width, breadth, poverty / Prosperity, kingdoms, power / Persecution, life, death, tribulation / Love, hate, chance, fate, angels, demons, sinner, saint, nothing on earth, no created thing