Category Archives: Inspirational Music

God Is All There Is

Posted on by

A fun Samba, great for children!

Instruments: Claves, Maraca, Eventide – Mainland Mahogany Concert Ukulele

1. Life is made for living
Gifts are made for giving
Sieves are made for sieving
And God is all there is!

2. Prayers are made for praying
Thanks are made for saying
Plays are made for playing
And God is all there is!

3. Smiles are made for wearing
Good is made for sharing
Pairs are made for pairing
And God is all there is!

4. Seeds are made for sowing
Love is made for showing
Snow is made for snowing
And God is all there is!

Repeat 1.

God is all there is!
God is all there is!

Download Mp3

Right click and choose “Save target as…” or similar to download the mp3.
God Is All There Is

Can’t Take It with You when You Go

Posted on by

Instrument: Tempo – Seagull Excursion Folk Acoustic Guitar

1. Play your guitar now.
Fit it in somehow.
Let the music flow,
The upbeat and the slow,
Because you can’t take it with you when you go.

2. Hug your people now.
Take the time somehow.
Let affection flow,
Deepest feeling show,
Because you can’t take ’em with you when you go.

We are one in spirit, heart and mind.
So you know there’s reason and there’s rhyme
For the lives we live
And those we come to know.
So find out what it is,
And make your living so,
Because you can’t take ’em with you when you go.

3. Clear your clutter now,
All the fears and all the doubts.
Let your knowing flow,
Keep your light aglow,
Deepest feeling show,
The upbeat and the slow,
Because you can’t take ’em with you when you go.

You are eternal, and this you gotta know.
So live your life sincere, and let your wings unfold,
‘Cause the Spirit is within you,
And It’s all you’re takin’ with you
In your soul.

Yeah, you take that Spirit with you,
And that’s all you’re takin’ with you when you go.

Invocation

Posted on by

This song and related posts are based on my mystical meditation experience and contemplation of the following:

New Testament Quotations

from World English Bible (WEB)

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
–Matthew 6:6

Being asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, “God’s Kingdom doesn’t come with observation; neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”
–Luke 17:20-21

(…) that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
–John 17:21

Invocation – Lyrics

Instruments: Soprano recorder, Tempo – Seagull Excursion Folk Acoustic Guitar

1. I call on Your Presence within my mind
And let go of this place and time.

Refrain:
You quiet my soul, and I know I am whole.
We are one; it is done by Your will,
Not mine.

2. I call on Your Presence within my mind
And let go of personal life.
Refrain:

3. I call on Your Presence within my mind
And let go of looking outside.
Refrain:

Download Mp3

Right click and choose “Save target as…” or similar to download and save the mp3.
Invocation

Related

Song inspired by the invocation I use before
Metaphysical Talks
and the poem,
“I Invoke”

The Star of Christ in You

Posted on by

Instrument: Tempo – Seagull Excursion Folk Acoustic Guitar

1. So many sizes and shapes of all kinds,
So many candles that glimmer and shine;
One God is seeing them all in His Mind
In every shape and hue,
The star of Christ in you.
Refrain:

2. So many people and things to keep safe,
So many paths you could take any place;
One God eternal beyond time and space
Thru’ everything that moves,
The star of Christ in you.
Refrain:

3. Have you ever felt lonely and wanted to know
Some precious companion that you could show
The height and the depth of all that is so?
It’s One that looks like two,
The star of Christ in you.
Refrain:

The star of Christ in you.

Refrain:
One star,
The brightest light;
One star
In God’s sight;
One star,
Beloved Truth;
The star of Christ in you,
The star of Christ in you.

Related

Behold, the Star!
Star – Relaxation Music

Spirit Bright

Posted on by

For the 2014 Be the Change Songwriting Challenge at SongU.com.

I don’t usually post lyrics and chords, because lining them up is a feat requiring great patience and a certain amount of insanity if you can’t see the screen! But this song is especially important to me, so I thought it might be to someone else as well.

Spirit Bright – Lyrics and Chords

Instrument: Cedar/rosewood tenor ukulele (linear/low G tuning)

3/4 time
Key of A

Intro:
A

1.
A7 D
We use our hands to meet demands
A E7
That people ask us to.
A A7 D
Not always well or in our plans,
A E7
But it starts with me and you
D E7 A A7
To let the Truth shine through.

Refrain:
D E7 D A
May your hands reflect your heart,
A7 D A E7
And may your heart be light.
A E7 D A
May your mind always come back to its part
E7 A A7 D
And follow your Spirit bright,
A E7 A
Follow your Spirit bright.

2.
Our hearts are touched by every spark;
Not one can pass us by.
To harden them would leave us barred,
Because even when we cry,
In Truth we never die.

Refrain:

3.
The mind, it spins and whirls around
With what was or what could be.
A F#m D A
By worrying it hits the ground
(cont. as prior verses)
And can’t look up to see
The Truth that sets it free,

Refrain:

Last refrain:
D E7 D A
May your hands reflect your heart,
A7 D A E7
And may your heart be light.
A D
May your mind always come back to its part
A E7 A A7 D
And follow your Spirit bright,
A E7 D A
Follow your Spirit bright.

What your Voice Reveals

Posted on by

“I can hear it in your voice.”

Someone who knows you well has probably told you this. And you may have been happy, but you probably felt vulnerable, exposed, and uncomfortable.

Our voices reveal a lot about us! Our thoughts, opinions, beliefs, self-image, feelings, emotions, and more flow through our voices. Not everyone consciously discerns them, just as many people don’t consciously project them. Nevertheless, there they are! The voice expresses our overall vibration and harmony, or dis-harmony as the case may be. By noticing what the voice has to say, through its quality, tone, rhythm, pitch, how we use it, etc., we can direct our awareness inward to restore and maintain wholeness.

The physical voice alone has no power or creative force. But there is an essence, cosmic consciousness, God, or Spirit, a natural intelligence that creates and sustains the voice. Through contact with this Higher Self, we move into the voice God has for us!

I offer these posts for contemplation and meditation. Your own truth and voice will come into your awareness if you open to it!

As St. Paul writes: My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, … Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
–1 Corinthians 2:4,13, World English Bible (WEB)

May the Spirit also speak to, and through you!

Harp and Drum
Tune In!
I am a Godsong
Instrument of Peace
The Voice of God
Mindsong
Throat Full of Song
I Invoke
Prayer to the Subconscious/Namaste

Feel Prosperity

Posted on by

Prosperity is all around us! But don’t take my word for it, because faith is not truly blind, rather, it sees the Truth! God is both immanent and transcendent, within and beyond all things. So, if you can see abundance/prosperity *somewhere*, anywhere, then it must also be in you.

The only thing that keeps us from being aware of this gift, is the personal ego. By giving it up daily to the God Presence and Power, we are empty vessels, open channels to be filled with all Life has to offer. Not only that, but it allows us to co-create with God, further expanding the abundance of the Universe!

In addition, we throw off our own limiting concepts of prosperity and let divine order create something better than we ever imagined!

Feel Prosperity – Lyrics

Instruments: Lady – Lava tenor Flea Ukulele, Recorder

1. Let me feel prosperity
in all its shapes and forms!
Let me share great joy and peace
as I’m creating more!

2. Let me feel abundance free
sustaining everyone!
Let me share community
and knowing it is done!

3. Let me feel ability
to give all that I please!
Let me share humility
As Spirit flows through me!

Repeat 1.

Spiritual Support

For another song for meditation, enjoyment and Higher Awareness, you may want to try
this one,
a
prayer treatment
in music.

Download the Album

Get your digital or physical CD from the fine folks at CD Baby, the best independent music store on the web!

Crystal L. Howe: And so It Is, Vol. 1

Because music not shared, is a purpose unfulfilled!

Tune In!

Posted on by

I realize this song isn’t very meditative. 🙂 But it can remind us to connect to our true, inner nature through meditation. And with its upbeat tempo, it can help us snap out of negativity. And how do you think I know this…?

Tune In! – Lyrics

Instrument: Concert Flea ukulele

Refrain:
Tune in, tune up
To the Spirit in your heart.
Listen in, listen up
So you play the perfect part.
May the notes that bring you harmony
In body, mind and soul
Be the music of the Spirit
That is yours, and yours alone!

1. Composers of all music
Create the best they can.
‘Cause different tastes and instruments
Are in the higher plan!
So
Refrain:

2. The spark of inspiration
Flows through us all, by far.
When we connect we all reflect
God’s image that we are!
We gotta
Refrain:

3. ‘Cause if we were all the same,
the world would be a lifeless place!
Beloved in God’s eyes,
He made us all unique by grace!

We tune in, tune up
To the Spirit in our hearts.
Listen in, listen up
So we play the perfect part.
Then the notes that bring our harmony
In body, mind and soul
Are the music of the Spirit
That is ours, ours, and ours alone!

Related

Tune up and Fanfare: Playing Life in Tune
Spiritual Support through Metaphysical Treatment Services

Really Been Loved

Posted on by

Also published in Seasons of the Moon Volume 13 Issue 2 Imbolc 2016

Instrument: Brio – Red Cedar Concert Ukulele

Recording Updated 2015 for
Mother Nature Sings

1. Have you ever heard a songbird that was sad?
Or seen a worker that made the Queen Bee mad?
Well I don’t believe you have
‘Cause they really, they really been loved.

2. Have you ever seen a weed that wouldn’t grow?
Or found a river that suddenly refused to flow?
O I bet the answer is no,
‘Cause they really, they really been loved.
And they know it, they really, really been loved.
Refrain:

3. ‘Cause nothin else asks, “What’s in it for me?”
Nature ebbs and flows cause God made it free.
The same is true for you and for me,
‘Cause we really, we really been loved.
Why don’t we act like we really, really been loved?
Refrain: (Twice)

It’s time we act like we really, really been loved!
‘Cause we really, really been loved!

Refrain:
O we all look for warmth, closeness and affection.
And we crave that spark! of physical connection.
When we let go and let Nature unfold perfection,
We know we really, we really been loved.
In every fiber we really, really been loved!

Spice of Life

Posted on by

Instrument: Concert Flea ukulele

Refrain:
1. We so often take them for granted,
The seasonings we like.
And even more forget the Source,
The reason for the spice.
Refrain:

2. The herbs bring a depth to our dishes,
Preserve, and help them shine.
And life is bland outside Your plan;
So I serve You with mine.
Refrain:

3. The spices You give are so many,
Some sweet, some hot, some sour.
And every one is Yours alone,
Existing in Your Power.
Refrain: (Twice)

You are the flavor in me.

Refrain:
You are the flavor in life,
More than salt, pepper, an herb, or spice.
For You’re the Creator of each of these things,
And You are the flavor in me.