Visio Divina April 11
Visio Divina July 12, 2021
Visio Divina
Visio Divina is a contemplative prayer type that uses pictures.
We remind ourselves that prayer does not originate with us; rather, it is a response.
It is an answer to a God who is communicating with us in so many ways.
So often we approach God through our intellect without opening our hearts and minds to ways God is speaking to us.
In this prayer we are opening ourselves to hearing from God by using more of our senses. Our goal is responding to God with more of ourselves.
In Visio Divina, we especially want to be aware of ways God is speaking to us…to NOTICE. We may notice something that is unpleasant? We may notice something delightful or triggers other emotions? What are you drawn to? What do you resist? Both resonance and dissonance can carry a message from God.
This is not linear thinking. It is more intuitive. Something you know without thinking about it.
I invite you to choose a picture that speaks to you in some way… in other words, let the picture choose you. Look through them all and notice which image draws you to it. Let the picture pick you.
Sit and relax with your picture.
Gaze at the picture that spoke to you.
Consider:
- If the picture could speak to you, what would it say?
- As you sit with the picture, take yourself into the scene. Imagine where you are in the picture and what is happening.
- Imagine what you might feel or hear
- Does the picture have a message for you?
Spend some quiet time with this.
Contemplative Prayer – Visio Divina
The next generation of inspiration
I loved leading worship on Christmas Eve with this great group of you musicians. So much talent and such great people.
Carols, Ales, Connect
Carols, Ales, Connect
Nine-Band Brewing
9 Prestige Cir
Allen, TX 75002
Dec 16
4pm-7pm
Come join me in for a good ‘ol singalong with your friends and family
Ireland
I went to Ireland and was able to go to a concert of Glen Hansard in a really cool setting. It was in a field owned by Shamash under a circus tent and put on by the Footsbarn Traveling Theatre. Everyone was extremely nice and I couldn’t ask for a cooler venue. The event started with Ye Vagabonds playing traditional Irish folk music. Ye Vagabonds is made up of 2 very talented brothers. They were funny and sound incredible. I really enjoyed their music. Hearing Glen play the music live that I’ve been listening to for a long time was amazing. His bass play from his band The Frames, Joe Doyle, backed him up along with a great violinist and cellist. I wish I wrote down their names. About halfway through the show and many stories later, Glen saw Marketa Irglova in the tent entrance and called her up. She had just arrived from Iceland for the show they were playing for the Swell Season on Oct 3rd, 2018. I didn’t expect she would be there for this show and was blown away when they played Falling Slowly. Towards the end of the show Glen brought up several talented musicians from the audience to play.
I stayed at a great B&B called Coill & Rois in Dingle. http://www.dinglebb.com Jimmy Bruin was a fantastic host and wonderful cook. I highly recommend staying here. It is off the beaten path a very relaxing.
New Project
I am extremely excited about this new project. It is a journey of love and relationships through music. Dates for upcoming shows will be added soon. The music includes originals and covers from multiple genre.
Cover Songs & Hymns
| Song Title | Artist |
| 10,000 Reasons | Matt Redman |
| 500 Miles | The Proclaimers |
| A Letter To Elise | The Cure |
| A Mighty Fortress – B Lead Sheet | |
| Adoration | Matt Maher and Thomas Aquinas |
| Aftertaste | Shawn Mendes |
| Alabama | Cross Canadian Ragweed |
| Alison | Elvis Costello |
| Alive | Pearl Jam |
| All My Hope | Crowder |
| All of Me | John Legend |
| All Summer Long | Kid Rock |
| All The People Said Amen | Matt Maher |
| All These Things That I’ve Done | The Killers |
| Amarillo Sky | Jason Aldean |
| Amarillo Sky | Jason Aldean (2005) |
| Amazed | Lonestar |
| Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone) | Chris Tomlin |
| American Honey | Lady Antebellum |
| Amertican Girl | Tom Petty |
| Animals | Maroon 5 |
| Annies Song | John Denver |
| Arise My Love | Newsong |
| Asleep | The Smiths |
| Baby I Love Your Way | Peter Frampton |
| Back and Forth | Foo Fighters |
| Bad Moon Rising | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Barton Hollow | The Civil Wars |
| Beautiful Things (Michael Gungor) – D – Lead Sheet (SAT) | Michael Gungor |
| Because He Lives (Amen) | Matt Maher |
| Becoming Me | Matthew West |
| Better Man | Pearl Jam |
| Big Green Tractor | Jason Aldean |
| Black | Pearl Jam |
| BlowersDaughter | Damian Rice |
| Blue Christmas | Elvis Presley 1957 (Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson) |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Queen |
| Bottoms Up | Brantley Gilbert |
| Break on Me | Keith Urban |
| Breaking the Girl | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Breath | Pearl Jam |
| Bring It Back | Shawn Mendes |
| Bring It On Home | Little Big Town |
| Broken Halos | Chris Stapleton |
| BY THE WAY | RHCP |
| Came Here to Forget | Blake Shelton |
| Change My Heart Oh God | |
| Chicken Fried | Zac Brown Band |
| Christ Be our Light elw 715 | |
| Christ In Me | Jeremy Camp |
| Christmas Carol Singalong | |
| Church Bells | Carrie Underwood |
| Clocks | Coldplay |
| Close To You chords | The Carpenters (Hal David / Burt Bacharach) |
| Closing Time | Semisonic |
| Come a Little Closer | Dierks Bentley |
| Come As You Are | David Crowder |
| Come To The Table | Sidewalk Prophets |
| Come, O Lord, and Set Us Free – Congregation with Parts | |
| Cop Car | Keith Urban |
| Crash My Party | Luke Bryan |
| CRAZY | Aerosmith |
| Creep | Radiohead |
| Cry Out To Jesus | Third Day |
| The Cure | Song: Just Like Heaven |
| Cuts Like A Knife | Bryan Adams |
| Dani California | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Daughter | Pearl Jam |
| Day Drinking | Little Big Town |
| Desperado | Eagles |
| Die a Happy Man | Thomas Rhett |
| Dierks Bentley | Long Trip Alone |
| Disarm | Smashing Pumpkins |
| Do You Remember | Blake Shelton |
| Don’t You Forget About Me | Simple Minds |
| Don’t You Wanna Stay | Jason Aldean (with Kelly Clarkson) |
| Dont Dream its over | Crowded House |
| Don’t Fear the Reaper | Blue Oyster Cult |
| Don’t Let Me Get Me | P!nk |
| Downtown | Lady Antebellum |
| Dream On | Aerosmith |
| Dream On (Vocals Only) | Aerosmith |
| Drink a Beer | Luke Bryan |
| Drops of Jupiter | Train |
| Dust In the Wind | Kansas |
| Dust to Dust | The Civil Wars |
| Eight Second Ride | Jake Owen |
| Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town | Pearl Jam |
| Empty And Beautiful | Matt Maher |
| Even If | MercyMe |
| Every Breath You Take | The Police |
| Every Rose has its Thorn | Poison |
| Everybody Hurts | R.E.M. |
| EVERYBODY HURTS | R.E.M. |
| EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD (ACOUSTIC) | Tears For Fears |
| Everyday I Write the Book | Elvis Costello |
| fade into you | mazzy star |
| Faithfully | Journey |
| Fall | Clay Walker |
| Falling Slowly | Glen Hansard |
| Fancy | Reba McEntire |
| Fast as You | Dwight Yokam |
| Fast Car | Tracy Chapman |
| Feels Like the First Time | Foreigner |
| Feliz Navidad | Michael Bublé Ft. Thalia – Feliz Navidad |
| The First Noel | Misc |
| Fly Over States | Jason Aldean |
| Folsom Prison Blues | Johnny Cash |
| For Everyone Born | |
| Fortunate Son | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Free Bird | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| Free Fallin’ | Tom Petty |
| Friday I’m in Love | The Cure |
| Gettin’ you home | Chris Young |
| Ghost Riders in the Sky | Johnny Cash |
| GIVE ME LOVE (GIVE ME PEACE ON EARTH) | George Harrison |
| Give Me Love(Give Me Peace On Earth) | George Harrison |
| God Bless The USA | Lee Greenwood |
| Good Good Father | Chris Tomlin |
| Good Good Father | Chris Tomlin |
| Goodnight Kiss | Randy Houser |
| GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER | |
| Great Things | Matt Maher |
| Hallelujah | Jeff Buckley |
| Hallelujah | Leonard Cohen |
| Happy Birthday | The Click 5 |
| The Happy Song (Delirious) Lead Sheet (F) | |
| Have I Told You Lately | Rod Stewart |
| Have You Seen The Rain | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas | Judy Garland, Bing Crosby (Martin / Blane) |
| The Heart Of Worship | Matt Redman |
| HEART-SHAPED BOX | Nirvana |
| Heartbreak Beat | The Psychedelic Furs |
| Heaven’s Already Here | Collective Soul |
| Hello World | Lady Antebellum |
| Here I Am To Worship | Hillsong |
| Here With Me | MercyMe |
| Hey Soul Sister | Train |
| Hey There Delilah | Plain White T’s |
| High And Dry | Radiohead |
| Higher | Creed |
| Home | Blake Shelton |
| Hotel California | Eagles |
| How He Loves | David Crowder Band |
| I Belive in a thing Called Love | Intro: |
| I Can See Clearly Now | Otis Redding |
| I Can’t Make You Love Me | Bonnie Rait |
| I Can’t Stop Loving You | Keith Urban |
| I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing | Aerosmith |
| I Hold On | Dierks Bentley |
| I Melt With You | Modern English |
| I Ran | A Flock of Seaguls |
| I Stand For You | |
| I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND what I’m Looking for | U2 |
| i wanna Make You Close Your Eyes | Dierks Bently |
| I’ll Be There for you | Bon Jovi |
| I’ll Be There For You | The Rembrandts |
| I’m On Fire chords | Bruce Springsteen |
| If I Fell | Maroon 5 |
| If You Died Tonight | Carl Cartee and Michael Weaver |
| If You Leave | OMD |
| Imagine | John Lennon |
| Imagine | John Lennon |
| In Color | Jamey Johnson |
| It Goes Like This | Thomas Rhett |
| It’s Not My Time | 3 Doors Down |
| It’s Not My Time (Tabbed) | 3 Doors Down |
| its not my time | 3 Doors Down |
| Jason Aldean | Amarillo Sky |
| Jesu Jesu | |
| The Joker | Steve Miller Band |
| Jumper | Third Eye Blind |
| Just Like Heaven | The Cure |
| Lamb Of God | |
| Last Kiss | Pearl Jam |
| Leave | Glen Hansard |
| Let her Cry | Hootie and The Blowfish |
| Lift Me Up | The Afters |
| Lights Come On | Jason Aldean |
| Lips Like Sugar | Echo and the Bunnymen |
| Living Inside My Heart | Bob Seger |
| Lonely Tonight | Blake Shelton feat. Ashley Monroe |
| Long Trip Alone | Dierks Bentley |
| Lord Be Glorified | |
| Lord Have Mercy – PraiseCharts Lead Sheet Piano_Vocal | |
| Lord I Need You | Matt Maher |
| Lost Stars | Adam Levine |
| Love Me Like You Mean It | Kelsea Ballerini |
| Love Song | The Cure |
| Love You like That | Canaan Smith |
| Make you Feel My Love | Adele |
| Make You Miss Me | Sam Hunt |
| Making Memories of Us | Keith Urban – Be Here |
| Maps | Maroon 5 |
| Marry Me | Train |
| Mary Did You Know | Pentatonix |
| Matt Maher | Because He Lives |
| Matt Maher | Because He Lives Amen |
| Meet Virginia | Train |
| Mele Kalkimaka | Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters, 1950 |
| Merry Christmas Daring | The Carpenters |
| Mom | Garth Brooks |
| The More I Drink | Blake Shelton |
| More Than A Feeling | Boston |
| More Than Words | Extreme |
| My Kinda Party | Jason Aldean |
| Mystify | INXS |
| Need You Now | Lady Antebellum |
| Nothing Compares to You | Lyrics by Prince |
| Nothing Compares to You | Chris Cornell |
| O Holy Night | glee |
| O Little Town of Bethlehem Chords | Brooks and Redner |
| Oh Come All Ye Faithful | Misc |
| Oh My Soul | Casting Crowns |
| Ol’ Red | Blake Shelton |
| The One that got away | The Civil Wars |
| The Only Name (Yours Will Be) | Benji Cowart |
| Only Wanna Be With You | Hootie & The Blowfish |
| Only Wanna Be With You (Acoustic) | Hootie and The Blowfish |
| Open Arms | Journey |
| Ordinary | Train |
| Ordinary | Train |
| Ordinary World | Duran Duran |
| Our God | Chris Tomlin |
| Paradise City / Sweet Child of Mine | Guns N Roses |
| Patience | Guns N’ Roses |
| Peace | Arr. Jim Gauthier |
| Peaceful Easy Feeling | Eagles |
| People Get Ready | Curtis Mayfield |
| photograph | Nickelback |
| Photograph | Ed Sheeran |
| Pink Houses | John Mellencamp |
| please, please, please, let me get what i want | the smiths |
| Purple Rain | Prince |
| RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS | Carpenters |
| Redeemed | Big Daddy Weave |
| ReJoice! | |
| Remind Me | Brad Paisley (with Carrie Underwood) |
| Rocket Man | Elton John |
| Round Here | Counting Crows |
| Runaway Train | Soul Asylum |
| Running to Stand Still | U2 |
| Running To Stand Still | U2 |
| Same Old Lang Syne | Dan Fogelberg |
| Sangria | Blake Shelton |
| Say It Ain’t So | Weazer |
| Say You Won’t Let Go | James Arthur |
| The Scientist | Coldplay |
| She Will Be Loved | Maroon 5 |
| She’s always a woman to me | Billy Joel |
| She’s Country | Jason Aldean |
| Should I Stay or Should I Go | The Clash |
| Should I Stay Or Should I Go | The Clash |
| Shut it Down | Luke Bryan |
| Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay chords | Otis Redding |
| Sleeping | Glen Hansard |
| Smoke Break | Carrie Underwood |
| Something So Strong | Crowded House |
| Song Title | Artist Name |
| Sowing the Seeds of Love | Tears For Fears |
| Space Oddity | David Bowie |
| Strip It Down | Luke Bryan |
| Stuck Like Glue | Sugarland |
| Summer of 69 | Bryan Adams |
| Sunday Bloody Sunday | U2 |
| Sure Be Cool if You Did | Blake Shelton |
| Sweet Child O’ Mine | Guns N’ Roses |
| Tainted Love | Soft Cell |
| Take my Breath Away | Berlin |
| Take My Life That I May Be | |
| Take My Life, That I May Be (TOMA MI VOLUNTAD) Toma, oh Dios, mi voluntad (Melody) | |
| Take On Me | Ah Ha |
| Take On Me (acoustic) | Ah Ha |
| Talking to The Moon | Bruno Mars |
| Tenerife Sea | Ed Sheeran |
| Tequila Sunrise | Eagles |
| Thinking Out Loud | Ed Sheeran |
| This Changes Everything | James Kocian/Judi Tyler |
| This Is Amazing Grace | Phil Wickham |
| This Time | INXS |
| Time of Your Life | Green Day |
| Time will be the healer once again | Glen Hansard |
| Times Like These | Foo Fighters |
| Times Like These (Acoustic) | Foo Fighters |
| To Leave Something Behind | Sean Rowe |
| To the Table | Zach Williams |
| Tonight I Wanna Cry | Keith Urban |
| Tonight Looks Good On You | Jason Aldean |
| Under the Milky Way (The Church) | The Church |
| VOICES CARRY | Til Tuesday |
| Walking In My Shoes | Depeche Mode |
| Wanted Dead Or Alive | Bon Jovi |
| Wanted You More | Lady Antebellum |
| Wastin’ Gas | Dallas Smith |
| We Exalt Your Name | Kari Jobe and Matt Maher |
| We’ve Ony Just Begun | Carpenters |
| WeAreCalled | |
| Weep With Me | Rend Collective |
| What difference does It Make? | The Smiths |
| What I’m Thankful For | Garth Brooks and James Taylor |
| Whatever She’s Got | David Nail |
| When You Were Young | The Killers |
| When your mind’s made up | Glen Hansard And Marketa Irglova |
| Where are you now | Blake Shelton |
| Where The Streets Have No Name | U2 |
| Wicked Game | Chris Isaak |
| With Arms Wide Open | Creed |
| With Or Without You | U2 |
| Without a Fight | Brad Paisley |
| World Where You Live | Crowded House |
| Yellow | Coldplay |
| Yellow Ledbetter | Pearl Jam |
| You Are My King (Amazing Love) | |
| you Raise Me Up | Josh Groban |
| Your Love Awakens Me | Phil Wickham and Chris Quilala |
| You’ll Think Of Me | Keith Urban |
| You’re Beautiful | James Blunt |
Love Song
I am working on several acoustic tracks and would love your feedback. Some are originals and some are rearranged songs from other artists. Here is the latest, Love Song.
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