Yikes....

I just looked at the date on the first song I posted ("A Song For Youze....") and realized that I took a very long vacation from updating my ramblings.

I am very happy today, January 1, 2012, because I think that after a year of being unattached from a church. I think I may have found...."the one". Sounds terribly dramatic as if I were talking about the ideal woman, but....I'm referring to a church body and this is more exciting than meeting the "ideal" woman (really). This is a fitting way to start out a new year, especially on day one of January.

This is a small church almost identical to the church group I left in Sarsota. The service is virtually the same, the music is familiar and most importantly they have a giving box just like the church in Sarasota; no collection bags going around....New Testament giving principles in effect here. My kind of giving.

The people were all very,very nice and genuinely eager to say hello, not stiff and (dare I say it?) somewhat forced in their welcoming. In all, I felt very comfortable there and methinks I shall return.

I'll need to get involved enough long enough to see how many and/or how severe the warts are I get to experience. I've had enough of membership in churches that turned-out to be a nightmare. Who knows, I may even get to consider joining this bunch at some point....stay tuned for further developments. Let's see how the warts fit.

Another Song (#2)

Figured I'd share some more f the songs I wrote. If you like them please let me know. If you don't care for them, then skip the part about letting me know. All I ask is for proper copyright credits should you decide to use them.

Old Brown Bible
Original Music & Lyrics © 2005 by A.E. Barri, all rights reserved

These Lyrics ©2012 A.E. Barri, all rights reserved
Slightly "bouncy" 2/4--moderate.

1. I found the old brown Bible on a dusty bookstore rack
Past a handmade sign that said “Religious books down in the back”
There inside the cover a mother’s heart called out to me,
In faded lines, on a yellowed page, back in 1873-

Chorus 1

“I would gladly suffer and die upon the cross-
For any of my children” was the prayer this mother wrote
She wrote it for her family, never knowing I would see,
But her loving cry ‘cross a century showed Jesus love to me.
(instrumental riff—one line)

2. Inside that old Brown Bible was the answer for all sin

How a loving father planned to bring His chidren home again
So He made Himself a sacrifice to set all sinners free,
And He wrote it in a message- for everyone to see-

Chorus 2

“I would gladly suffer and die upon the cross-
For any of my children”- was the prayer Our Father wrote,
He wrote it for all people cause He wanted us to see,
How he loved so much that He gave Himself- to end sin’s misery.
(instrumental riff—one line)

3. Well years have passed and somehow that old Bible it got lost

But the message that it held inside showed just how much it cost
When on Golgotha’s hill the saviour died for you and me
He broke the bonds of sin and death and won the victory

Chorus 3

For He gladly suffered and died upon that cross,
For all the fallen people, just to save them being lost,
Though I read it on a dusty page in a book from yesterday
It was true two-thousand years ago, and it’s still the truth today.
(instrumental riff—one line)

(Reprise, ritardando and out) I would gladly suffer and die upon the cross.