For my creative project for the Essentials in Worship Leading Online Course with Dan Wilt.
For my final project, I chose to write a song for the class. Please forgive the quality of the sound...I am just now learning how to record things and it is not really as easy as it looks. I would love any constructive criticism you may want to give me. So here is a link to it:
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5XZKnc1zy3zMjhmOTAyOGQtZDYxMC00OTg4LWJlYWUtYWQzZjYxMDAxYmVl&hl=en
(I couldn't figure out how to make this a link, so you'll have to copy and paste it. Sorry!)
For my class, I had multiple options for my creative project. The one that stuck out to me was one that told me to write "a rough mp3 and PDF chord chart for an original contemporary worship song written for your local congregation based on one of the values ideas presented during the course.”
Here is the explanation:
In my class, we were required to read a book by Andy Park called "To Know You More". In the chapter called "The Gift and Craft of Songwriting" (page 227), Andy writes about the inspiration for a song. One of these inspirational ideas was writing straight from scripture and I jumped all over it. My song is from Isaiah 25:1, 4, and 9. Now this verse has always struck me as interesting and generally means something entirely different to me each time I read it (as the Bible tends to do to the reader). When I was reading it and thinking about using it for a song, it meant to me that I can always trust God.
Trust is something I have always struggled with. It is very hard for me to trust people because of many, many bad experiences I had when I was younger. You know the game when you let yourself fall backwards into your friend’s arms to demonstrate trust? Yeah, I always hated that game with a deep and abiding passion and would refuse to do it. I would only fall into my parents’s arms and that was IT. So the idea that I can let myself fall backwards and God will catch me, never letting me anywhere near the ground and that I can run to Him and tell Him anything without it being turned into gossip was/is a hard concept for me to grasp. These songs lyrics mean a lot to me because of this.
O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness You have done marvelous things, things planned long ago. -Isaiah 25:1
You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm, and a shade from the heat. -Isaiah 25:4a
Surely, this is our God; we trusted in Him, and He saved us. This is the Lord; we trusted in Him; let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation." -Isaiah 25:9
