LISTEN TO HIM
1. Breezes whisper without meaning, sands lie silent on the beach;
earth has no self-explanation -
only one can give it speech.
Listen to him - Jesus, the eternal one.
Listen to him - angels sang when he was born. Listen to him - now the word of God is known in his only Son.
2. He must show the truth about us - sin has made us deaf and blind.
We could never understand him,
so he comes, a man in time.
3. How does Jesus break the silence? With an offer to the lost:
'Come, a home is ready for you!' Opens heaven with a cross.
4. Now I've heard you speaking clearly - word and water, bread and wine -
I might recognize your accent
anywhere and anytime.
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1987. Like many songs this one started from a book I read: "The Holy Spirit: Shy Member of the Trinity". Friedrich Bruner and William Hordern each contribute 2 essays/lectures to this slim volume. One of Bruner's highlights the way in which both the Spirit and the Father point to Jesus as the one to focus our attention on. The phrase "Listen to Him!" occurs at both the baptism of Jesus and at his Transfiguration. The music began as a drum pattern and a riff on the synthesiser I had recently bought (Ensoniq ESQ1). The combination of this book and the synthesiser also produced "Spirit Of God, Fly Like A Dove" in that month, July 1987. |
30.9.24
Back from a Break
During September, Dorothy and I travelled
to Norway and the UK.
After long flights
- Adelaide to Melbourne,
Melb to Dubai (14 hrs),
Dubai to Oslo (7 hrs) -
we did Norway in a nutshell
from Oslo to Bergen, then
the Hurtigruten Cruise
up the west coast of Norway
and back again.
Then an 8 day Trafalgar tour
and 4 days in London,
before taking the direct flight
(16 3/4 hrs)
from Heathrow to Perth.
We're a bit tired (!) but we'll still be a part
of the LWA convention and the
General Convention .
See some of you there.