Happy is the one, is a short theme to remind all about the things that truly make us happy. I know that I need to be reminded from time to time that happiness is not the possessions and worldly things that I see, but it is much more, much greater things cause you the greater joy, and those things can be obtained for free. They are the luscious and non-tangible things of the world, which are free to partake and free to enjoy. The true gifts of gratitude, or joy, or happiness, they can be received from what is all around us. Whether we are in a place alone, or are in a place with plenty, the great true things which fulfill our greatest desires are freely available, if we choose that those things should satisfy us. This is the greatest understanding that we choose, knowingly or not, that which will make us happy, it is we who ultimately decide how we will be affected by that which runs about us, and wether it will deter us, or be another step along the journey which passes, and we pass from. My good friend always likes to remember this phrase: “It came – to pass”. That is the things in life, that are not going well, they came, so that they could pass. And now it is time to believe that they will pass, and you will move on. I pray many blessings of God over you, that whatever you may be dealing with, you shall see light at the end of your tunnel, and you shall live soon to see the day that it too shall pass, and you shall move onwards.
This one hits home. How many in times in your life, especially when you were younger did someone, an adult, tell you – you are not ready. Then you grow up, and still, no matter what you do, no matter how much you accomplish or do, you still feel.. not ready. This is my prayer for you, when you feel not ready, when you feel that ready will never be. When you are so frustrated and so upset, that you are at that point, where you are about to give up, and then I say.. don’t give up. You are not alone, and you need not be too sad. There is a place to go to, and become lifted up, and to let go all that was from your past, and to press on, anew. Be then renewed with these new words, and be empowered with these new thoughts, and then go peacefully renewed on your path. Many blessings from God to you, no matter where you are in life, take great care, and be at peace.
New youtube series, launching Spoken Prayer. After many years of starting and working on Spoken Hope, I found that I kept being drawn back to the prayers that would be written. Now feeling a desire to share these prayers I present Spoken Prayer.
With the feelings of needing to live in the now to stop making regrets, so that one can focus on the moment at hand, I have written “I am now” as a reminder to live in the moment, that is to thinking with clarity and focus and intention in the moment. It is not a call to live carelessly, but yet the opposite, to stop living carelessly. It is not a token to excuse undirected passion, or spur on immature behavior, but rather a call, a reminder, to just think about now, the moment. To truly ask are the actions, behaviors, thoughts, and choices I am making now, are they my true honest self? Am I acting out of selfishness, or am I lying to myself, and trying to grab at something that is illusive?
In the pursuit of trying to get in touch with one’s feelings and to describe with all certainty what in fact is true and honest, and really taking the time to evaluate one’s life, it is good, I have found to have reminders, amongst the busiest of days, that even when life does not go the way you plan, how true, that you can yield to a greater plan that is not yet understood, but its existence can be known to you now. Many blessings from God to you on your journey, where ever you are in life.
I had a dream between 2005-2006, and it was the last vision, that I really had for a long time thereafter. I had fallen asleep on the floor of the front room, and had this vision.
For years I wondered what to do about it, and finally, just recently I have composed it in a short video.
This video is about how we take things for granted. We live in an age where we just assume that nothing will change, and that everything is constant.
Constants are the illusion. they provide us a false sense of security, and certainty. This is most true, as we live our lives on a personal level, we do not expect people to die, even though death is inevitable. We expect our friends to be the same, or to be married for ever. We convince ourselves, by affirmations or saying 4ever, or writing on a tree or cement, that it is certain, it is constant.
Yet we do not even know our next breath, or what will happen tomorrow. How much more can we assume to know?
In this video I talk about constants, and if we can not find security and certainty in them, then where can we find that?
Watch the video to find out. Also please leave a comment, like and subscribe if you find a benefit. Also feel free to share. If you’d like me to cover other topics, please comment, and I’ll see about adding that to my queue. Be well my friend, and take care.
This track was unnamed, it is a song that was written in 1998. It is a slow-paced and easy going song, which is meant to slow down, and carry your mind away from that which distracts you, to a place of peace and contemplation.
Recorded on Tascam DA-88s, through a SoundCraft LX7, it was eventually mastered on Logic Pro years later. The Ibanez guitar is run through a Zoom 9150 tube guitar effects processor. There are sounds from a Roland TR-909, JV-880, JV-1080, EMU Ultra Proteus, Kawai K11, and other wonderful synths.
The album title comes from the place of contemplating the Cross. Many times in life we live in a place of relativity. That is we think from where we are at the moment. Since every one is at a different place, we all think from different spaces. In the days before Jesus Christ, this was a huge problem, in fact that is the reason that Abraham was chosen by God. In the days of Abraham, every man did as he pleased, and as a result, there was chaos and disorder.
In this rampant disorder there was no justice, nor could there be an penalty or accountability. Where there is no reference, there is no way to hold to any kind of justice, or begin to evaluate one conclusion over another. There must be a point of reference for there to be order, justice, and a sense of direction. If there is none established, than everyone is blind .
God called out Abraham, as one who tried to do what was right, who tried to do what he believed in his heart was the right thing to do. This pleased God, because God had given him his heart, and that he followed it, was pleasing to God.
In this day and age, and over time, we are much like those who lived in the days of Abraham. There is a great deal of corruption and injustice all over the world, and through this there is a lack of reference.
To be sane, and find a center of peace in this world, we must have a reference of certainty and security, so that we may attain to self-control, and restraint, to grow and mature.
Therefore it is necessary to define in our lives a point, that does not change. This is why God says through the Bible, over and over, that He does not change. It is to give us security and certainty. That if we pursue His ways, that HE will take care of us, and those promises are as true today, as they have ever been.
If you find that your life, is lacking in security, and things are always in random chaos, and you are not in your heart liking where you are, and you wish it was better, that things could be better, and you earnestly in your heart yearn for a better way to live, then God is speaking to you right now, to come and make the Cross a reference point in your life, in fact to make the Cross, the single point of reference in your life. Seek out Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, and begin on a journey, a process where you will be lead to your hearts desire, and believe me, you will find a joy and happiness that you would have never realized possible before. Allow God to work in your life, as you take shelter in His protection, and find your life transformed, in as many ways as you can imagine, even beyond what you thought possible. Be well, and take care my friend.
I have put together some preview tracks. I am about to publish 16 albums, from content that was created between 1997-2014. For the next batch of music tracks, they will feature PREVIEW on the splash screen, and so that means that this track, is one song of an album-in-progress. The track may or may not be in its final mastered form. During this preview promotion, you will get to hear a good many different styles that I produced over the years, and will get a feeling for what is coming down the pipe. All the songs are copyrighted their original content year, and the albums will be formally published in 2015. Once published I will update links on the videos to the iTunes and Amazon, and other places that they music will be available. If you would like to use the music for commercial purposes, you can contact me, and we can talk about your needs and find something that works.
These Paths Are Holy, is a classic EDM ( Electronic Dance Music ) selection, that is full of beautiful vintage and analog sounds, that paint a picture in your ears.
This track focuses more on analog modular synths. The sounds come to form an ethereal atmosphere which is enhanced by the eccentric use of sounds. The variety of tones, and overtones, creates a complex mood, which is shifted by time and space.
The mysteriousness of God, is an illusion. As God’s most greatest desire is to save, and know all of mankind. Yet as we are given free-will, a value is created on the distance placed between our choices, and the holy place that the Lord stands. The choice to desire to become self-controlled, gentle, peaceful, kind, noble, and loving, is a course that sets you on a holy path itself.
When your desire is to seek the Lord, and to know Him, you find that the paths that seemed once unattainable, are filled with grace and love, to help you walk them. In fact, you even get help, and encouragement to walk more closely with God, by other believers, and also by God Himself.
To choose to go down this path, or continue, is a desire which must be enabled with intention. For without intention to commit to the desire, the desire is soon lost. Many times we say we will do something, and then loose commitment, for we had no intention to commit in the first place.
Therefore, we must first choose in our minds, and again in our hearts, to agree that this choice, the intention to commit to this desire, will in fact be what is good for us. For each of us individually. Some in their minds, not being able to come to a place of understanding, have not ever been able to achieve that level of understanding, and therefore, have not been able to see the benefits of this choice or decision.
Friend, I encourage you, that if it is in your heart to walk with God, and to know Him face to face, to know and hear from Him intimately, then I am saying to you, that it is not only possible, but a reality. If you would be willing to make changes in yourself, to fill and correct any gaps that you might have in your understanding, then you will be able to freely come to God, in a way in which you would find it hard to believe now.
Friend, I can tell you, that to walk with God is mainly a change to a perception in your mind, for you have already been walking with God, even for a long time, and yet you have not been able to identify that as God. You have been lead, and even directed, but you have not know by whom it is sourced. Friend, if you have been looking for God, I ask you to now, just accept that you have indeed found God. Accept in your heart, that you receive this, and you shall come to know a great deal more of who God is.
May you never see God as unreachable in this day and age, but see God as accessible, as a direct resource, and connection, that you are able to harness from, and bind with, to become much greater, than you could possibly become alone. Be well, and take care my friend.
I have put together some preview tracks. I am about to publish 16 albums, from content that was created between 1997-2014. For the next batch of music tracks, they will feature PREVIEW on the splash screen, and so that means that this track, is one song of an album-in-progress. The track may or may not be in its final mastered form. During this preview promotion, you will get to hear a good many different styles that I produced over the years, and will get a feeling for what is coming down the pipe. All the songs are copyrighted their original content year, and the albums will be formally published in 2015. Once published I will update links on the videos to the iTunes and Amazon, and other places that they music will be available. If you would like to use the music for commercial purposes, you can contact me, and we can talk about your needs and find something that works.
Rebuilding Hope, is an uplifting Drum and Bass (DnB) styled track, that is all about hope. The track is slow-paced at first, and then ramps up to the DnB familiar style. It is meant to rise up your spirit as you listen to the track.
The name, comes from a time in my life, where my hope was in fact, not very existent, and I was sad, and slightly depressed, I felt about the experiences in life I had gone through, and then decided to take all of that pain, and sadness and put it into a song about hope, to life my own spirit up. The result, is that when I listen to this song, my hope jumps high in my soul, and I have revived, and taken to a beautiful place, where my thoughts are traded from defeat to victory. Where my mind is focused from depression to hope, abundance, and gratefulness.
May you be filled with peace and hope, and take a step back in your life, as you listen to this track, and become relaxed by its tones of gladness, praise, hope, well-being, and luscious spirit of victory.
When you feel defeated in life, and you need your hope to be rebuilt, then I offer you hope, that your hope can be rebuilt. If you take a moment to relook at your life, and believe that you can be restored and rectified, then you will find the hope, and the way, the path, that will lead to restoration.
I have put together some preview tracks. I am about to publish 16 albums, from content that was created between 1997-2014. For the next batch of music tracks, they will feature PREVIEW on the splash screen, and so that means that this track, is one song of an album-in-progress. The track may or may not be in its final mastered form. During this preview promotion, you will get to hear a good many different styles that I produced over the years, and will get a feeling for what is coming down the pipe. All the songs are copyrighted their original content year, and the albums will be formally published in 2015. Once published I will update links on the videos to the iTunes and Amazon, and other places that they music will be available. If you would like to use the music for commercial purposes, you can contact me, and we can talk about your needs and find something that works.
The Lord Draws Me to Himself, is an instrumental song, full and rich with warm analog sounds, featuring a Roland TR-909, Juno 106, JV-880, Mini V, and other assorted beautiful vintage instruments.
This rich and slow song is made for soul-soaking meditation. It is to sit and relax, with the warm analog sounds. The whole album is a paced continuously so that you can listen to it over and over again, and extend your meditation time as necessary.
The track helps you to relax from a stressful day, and melt away into a presence of warm and soothing sounds, which will lift you out and away from what you currently face, so you can spend some soul-soaking time learning, pondering, and thinking about what it is you need to do, or how to deal with those things in your life that are going on.
This track was a reminder to me, that the Lord is the one who starts the communication. It is not myself, who is the initiator, but the Lord, who starts. He loved us first. He communicates with us first. He is the one who begins. We enter in, to his courts of praise, as we have already been invited to enter. The desire to realize that we have already been invited, is enough for us to know we are to accept the invitation, and enter.
We get too caught up, on should I this, or should I that. We wind up in paralysis. We can’t move at all. We can not even decide on the simplest things. Therefore, we must change our thinking, if we are to move forward in a new way. Our old thoughts no longer empower us, they betray us, and therefore, we have no other option, than to abandon that which only causes us pain and strife, and move to new beliefs, and new ideas that will move us past, and suit us well for our journey.
A time of deep meditation or relaxation is sometimes needed, to free ourselves from the hardened beliefs we have, to step back for a moment, and then realize that we need to change who we are. In our minds, we had not seen the way we have become, and now the two differ, so we must rebase ourselves, and find out what is different, and clean out the weeds from our garden if you will.
Having a place to let go, and find what is truly in our hearts, is a must in a series of steps to begin a process of transformation. This series of steps if in your mind you believe you will find much encouragement, then in fact, you will see much help, guidance, and encouragement along the way. As much as you have hoped for, you will find that exact measure, possibly a little bit more.
Let this track distract you from the clutches of worry, panic, fear, and doubt, as you give your thoughts over to a higher power of intelligence, and draw from the living waters of revival, and see things in a new and enlightened way, and you will be more refreshed to deal with that which is before you. Be well, and take care my friend.
I have put together some preview tracks. I am about to publish 16 albums, from content that was created between 1997-2014. For the next batch of music tracks, they will feature PREVIEW on the splash screen, and so that means that this track, is one song of an album-in-progress. The track may or may not be in its final mastered form. During this preview promotion, you will get to hear a good many different styles that I produced over the years, and will get a feeling for what is coming down the pipe. All the songs are copyrighted their original content year, and the albums will be formally published in 2015. Once published I will update links on the videos to the iTunes and Amazon, and other places that they music will be available. If you would like to use the music for commercial purposes, you can contact me, and we can talk about your needs and find something that works.
Relentless is fueled by a driving pumping Juno-6, that is pulsating with perseverance. Combing a number of vintage synth sounds in an EDM style, this track keeps moving along. Featuring Roland TR-909, K11, MC-303, KS4, MKS-50, Emu UltraProteus, JV-880, JD-800, JD-990, U-110, Sh-101, Juno-106, and other classics. At 2:34 the style changes, and the song is revived, with a driving second rhythm.
Relentless, is a theme for looking past all your current troubles, and seeing new possibility on the horizon. It is focused on what is next, and striving to attain, and move to that which is next, when the now is filled with depression and frustration.
Things can be different, for those who choose to see another ray of light, there will be another ray of light to find. Awakening to realization of other choices, and other opportunities is the initial step to this new way, this new light. For those who believe in better outcomes, believe relentlessly with a sort of obsession, that a brighter, better future is possible, and then you will see things come together, that will bring about that, which you have been seeking.
This album focused on the struggles with depression, and was aimed to be a hope, to those who are struggling through. The title equates to looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, or the notion that some who are depressed feel less so when they see the sunshine, so they look for the sunshine.