When the Tsunami Hits

The ground begins to shake, the waters start to rise
The earth begins to quake - it comes as a surprise
And soon a wall of waves will crash upon the shore
How than can I be saved with ruin knocking at the door?

There is a rock where we can build - unmoving, solid, certain, sure
There is a dock where we get filled - where waves of life can be endured

When the Tsunami hits, when wildfires roar
When storms tear all to bits, when you can’t handle more
When all around you falls, when darkness rules the sky
God hears us when we call, counts every tear we cry

And when life’s storms obscure, make good so hard to feel
God says “My Love endures My love for you is more than real”
When you feel lost in fear - abandoned and so all alone
God is still very near, He hears your every moan

All that’s been done to you Jesus has lived as well
and He can take you through what feels like living hell

When the Tsunami hits, when wildfires roar
When storms tear all to bits, when you can’t handle more
When all around you falls, when darkness rules the sky
God hears us when we call, counts every tear we cry

© Brian Kelley 2012 Neuenburg 26-2-2012

Overflow

Overflow
Seeing yet blind, hearing but deaf
Seek without find, right without left
High minus low, below no above
Stop never go, Life without love

Half a life means a life never lived
50% leaves too little to give
Choose instead life with eternity’s glow
Come to the One who makes cups overflow

Sleep without dreaming. pain no relief
An existence that’s teeming with facts - not belief
peering through eyes where the vision is blurred
searching for meaning but never assured

Never quite certain that certain exists
drawing the curtain on all hopes of bliss
Choose instead meaning, acceptance and love
come to the One who has come from above

Emmanuel God with us
Life is found in Jesus

Half of a life’s really no life at all
to 50% there is no one who’s called
come to the One who has fullness to give
come now to Jesus, the Saviour - and live

© Brian Kelley 2012 - Neuenburg am Rhein 29-1-2012
Inspired by John 10:10

Temptation Thought

We often look to be released from all the stuff that tempts. But consider this:

We have not been set free from the fight, we have been set free for the fight.

Next time temptation knocks make a conscious decision to send Jesus to answer the door.

You Are the One

You are the One

Lofty and exalted, high and lifted up
You reign
Humbled in obedience, to a convict's death
You came

You are eternal Word
the Life, the Truth, the Way
You are both source and goal
The Lord of Night and Day

You are the Lamb of God
Who came to be made sin
our living sacrifice
to give us life again

You who threw the stars into space
came to earth to die in my place

You are the One

(c) Brian Kelley 2012
Isaiah 6:1; Philippians 2:8

Light Years Away

I was thinking about how long light takes to travel and the Disney tune "When You Wish Upon a Star" and these words came to me:

When you wish upon a star
remember - it's very far
and the light you now see glow
left that star long, long ago

Better to speak to the One
who's the Maker of all suns
speak to Him - there's no delay
He hears and loves it when you pray

(c) Brian Kelley 2011

White Christmas

Audio Demo here: http://bit.ly/WhiteXmasRuff

Christmas is over all the toys are nearly broken
About this holiday many things are left unspoken
It’s the story of a man who came thousands of years ago
and though the holiday bears His name, there’s more talk of snow
have a white Christmas

New Year’s is on its way, with resolutions broken
good intentions that are rarely lived out - only spoken
It seems as if this world is caught up with what will not last
and puts its energies in to what will surely pass
away
have a white Christmas

Did you have a white Christmas?
Do you know the Man whose name it bears?
He really cares
about you

Well, I want to have a white Christmas
every single day
that kind that comes from guilt that
has been washed away