A Christmas carol

After ranting on about Christmas in my last blog post, I thought it was time to contribute something (hopefully) a bit more positive. So here's a rough demo version of a new carol what I wrote. :-)

Into the dark of Earth's long night

Into the dark of earth's long night
Shines the star of heaven's light
Into the heart of winter sky
Rises this star so bright, so high
Guiding us with its quick’ning ray
Heralding long-awaited day
Into the dark of earth's long night
Shines the star of heaven's light

Into the dark of sin and shame
Blazes the light of heaven's flame
This flame which burns so pure and strong
Promising end to harm and wrong
Bringing to us love's holy light
Come to restore our broken sight
Into the dark of sin and shame
Shines the light of heaven's flame

Into our winter deep and long,
Sound the notes of heaven's song
This song which melts the frozen heart
Breaking its ice-bound chains apart
Making our souls and spirits sing
With the joy of coming spring
Into our winter deep and long
Sound the notes of heaven's song.

A bunch of my other songs and tunes are available here.

Good Friday song

Good Friday - a day like any other; a day unlike any other. I'd like to write lots of deep stuff about it but I'm meant to be packing to go to Cambridge tomorrow for a few days with my wife's folks. So for now here's a video for a song I wrote a few years ago.



Broken for you, broken for me,
Broken in two, divine unity
What did it cost, what you gave for free
There on the cross - broken for me?

Oh, and here's a Maundy Thursday poem I wrote 11 years ago...