Most people don’t know that I dabble in arranging music
for piano or euphonium. Usually that takes the form of taking SATB choral arrangements
and boiling them down to a piano score (probably the opposite of what most
arrangers do!) mostly because I’m too cheap to buy the piano music for myself.
All that aside, I have actually written one song of my own. The words and
melody were written during one of Pastor Matt’s first sermons in October 2008,
though I promise I did listen to him. This week I’ve been revising the
accompaniment and may make still more changes. You can listen to the audio file
of the current version here. (No, that’s not me playing piano.) Here are
the words:
You
Alone Are Able
You
are holy
And worthy of praise.
I fall before You
In awe of all Your ways.
You are worthy.
How I need Your love and grace.
Show me who You are today.
And worthy of praise.
I fall before You
In awe of all Your ways.
You are worthy.
How I need Your love and grace.
Show me who You are today.
You
alone are able
To take away my sin.
You alone are able
To cleanse me deep within.
You alone are worthy
Of all my praise.
I will give You glory
All my days.
To take away my sin.
You alone are able
To cleanse me deep within.
You alone are worthy
Of all my praise.
I will give You glory
All my days.
Some day I may actually record the vocals, but for now
I’ve been singing it to myself as a reminder of the One “who is able to do immeasurably
more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us”
(Ephesians 3:20 NIV).
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