New Recordings of my old Christian Songs

In this world today, there's way too much focus on "me-ness". I've been watching the transformation over the last 50 years. It started subtly in the 60's and is now blossoming into a full-blown selfishness. Folks are being brainwashed into seeking 'their' happiness, 'their' career, loving themselves first. It's a me, me, me World. THIS is why we are suddenly seeing so many mass shootings, marriages failing, so much hatred, and so much finger pointing. Love ... the kind that puts others first ... is the ONLY answer. That true love can ONLY be found ONE place .... at the foot of Christ's cross. But mention that today, and watch the self-lover's blood begin to boil. It ain't all about you. Until you grasp that ... you'll find yourself constantly battling against yourself. You cannot save yourself.

Years ago (literally) I wrote a bunch of songs about my Christian faith. I even played in a Christian rock band for ten years. Now I ‘get’ that music is definitely not gonna save the world. Lotsa folks don’t even care for music. But for me, it’s important because it helps me to express things in a way I can’t normally do by just speaking. I think it allows me to say things I’m thinking without feeling like I’m coming across as Barney Fife.

Anyway … I recently opened up an old notebook of my original Christian songs and I began to read through the words I’d once written. Some were pretty good. Others … well … let’s just say that they were pretty awful. I started wondering why I ever even wrote some of them. But then it dawned on me that those old songs were many times written by me not necessarily as songs … but as prayers. So as I re-read the words, I started remembering times, places, and things that I once experienced. Some great. Some not so much. And I discovered that a BUNCH of ‘em were written AT me. It was almost as if ‘Someone’ was talking TO me through my own pencil.

As I worked my way through my note book …I began pulling out some of my better ones. I’m now 5 songs into my next recording and I cannot for the life of me understand why these never got recorded twenty years ago. Sure, some are ‘old style’, hard-hitting, classic rock. But the words speak .. at very least .. to me.

I hope to continue to add to this new collection as I discover other stagnant writings in my old notebook.

Hope You Enjoy these new 'old' songs!

Ronny