My Music

click on the link below for a board mix of my latest worship song, written for crosspointe. enjoy!

Knowing You
by Stephen Claybrook

We are Your body
We’re bruised and we’re broken
We need You, God
To heal our hearts

We are Your children
We’re plagued by our doubts and confusion
We need Your light

But more than this
Lord, we’re running after You

We want You
More than we want answers from You, God
More than anything our hearts desire
Lead us further on in our pursuit
Of knowing You
Knowing You

We are paralyzed
Gripped by our fear
We’re afraid to move
There’s too much to lose

This is our confession
We carry the weight of our questions
We’re searching for truth

But more than this
Teach us to follow after You

We want You
More than we want answers from You, God
More than anything our hearts desire
Lead us further on in our pursuit
Of knowing You
Knowing You

(c)2008 Camillian Music.

(this post is part of creative chaos at ragamuffin soul.)

just got home at midnight after jamming and songwriting with a few of my musician buddies from church.

i’m so excited to be writing songs again. especially to be writing songs that hopefully give voice to what God is doing in and through our particular community.

here’s a heads up for you crosspointers…we got a great start on a new song that we’re writing for our next series coming up in august. i have one line of the lyric written and just a couple of other phrases.

the idea (and the series) is about the kingdom of God - or the kingdom of heaven depending on which gospel writer you’re reading….

jesus gave several incredibly rich metaphors to describe the kingdom, but my current favorite metaphor is the treasure buried in a field. i’ve decided to keep it simple and use this one metaphor for the verses.

we knocked out all the music for the song - verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge. there will likely be some tweaks depending on how the lyrics and melody flesh out, but it already feels like a song….

here are the lyrics for the chorus that i have:

“we’ve caught a glimpse of your kingdom
and we want more
blah blah blah blah…..
blah blah blah blah for the whole world”

catchy, huh?

more to come in terms of the songwriting process…..

it’s been too long.
i’m letting a part of me atrophy.
it’s not good.
i’ll even settle for a bad song.
i just NEED to write a song.

thanks to everyone who came out tonight, braving the cold, and giving so much of your hard-earned cash to benefit the haitian children’s home. we raised $2,006. awesome!

the music was fun. how many times have you heard allison krauss, alicia keys, and led zeppelin in the same night, besides when your iPod is on shuffle? one of my favorite things in life is to play good music with a good band. steve, dan, chris, frank, kristi, heather, summer - you guys RAWK!

i heard that pheasant creek coffee had a record sales night, too, so that makes me happy.

my mind is spinning with ideas now for how to use music to raise support for another cause that’s near and dear to our family, international adoption. anyone reading this that wants to brainstorm with me (especially those of you that are smarter than me when it comes to administration and non-profit stuff), please let me know…..