There’s a hook in there somewhere
I received a mass email today from a southern gospel artist with the following subject line: When Your Mess Becomes Your Message. Feel free to write as many verses in comments as the lord lays on your heart.
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Aaron Swain wrote:
That’s up there with the opening lines of “Jesus Is The Answer Every Time,” by the Statler Brothers (and I believe it was written by Don & Harold Reid.)
“When there’s no good in your good mornings, too much hell in your hellos…”
Posted 26 Jan 2010 at 8:29 pm ¶
KC wrote:
Lord, my life is such a mess.
But I have to confess.
I just listened to Jake Hess.
And I’m a’feelin no stress.
Okay…I’ll stick to my day job.
Posted 26 Jan 2010 at 8:51 pm ¶
DD wrote:
Since you started a songwriting thread I have a question for the masses. When you are referring to the Lord in any way, shape or form should it be capitalized? He, Him, Lord, God, etc. our Presbyterian hymnal has quite a lot of references to God (et al) that do not capitalize the reference (him, he, etc.). Personally, I think they are incorrect, others?
Posted 26 Jan 2010 at 9:07 pm ¶
Samuel wrote:
I’ma mess, I guess, I must confess;
When I’m at my worst, sometimes it’s my best.
(”I’m a Mess, I Guess” by Tracy Dartt)
Posted 26 Jan 2010 at 9:19 pm ¶
NG wrote:
When your mess becomes your message
then you’re carrying too much baggage
you can’t heal your heart with a bandage
or fill the emptiness with a sandwich
You need to be reborn and get a bus
for the last word in Jesus is us
So start a quartet, get an email address
and turn the mess into a message
Posted 27 Jan 2010 at 12:49 am ¶
Auke wrote:
Everybody says your life is a mess.
You don’t care,that they don’t approve.
It’s your life, your blisss,..
The ingnorance of youth.
Auke
I’ll keep my dayjob too…lol
Posted 27 Jan 2010 at 4:47 am ¶
stephen wrote:
#4-Too funny…and true!!! Loved the second stanza.
Posted 27 Jan 2010 at 10:09 am ¶
Marty Funderburk wrote:
Proving that there truly is nothing new under the sun…a year ago, I wrote a song with Kenna West and John Lemonis called “Mess Into a Message” - here’s the chorus:
If He makes beauty from ashes
Turns your night into day
If He can move any mountain
Get it out of your way
He can take all your failures
And turn ‘em into successes
And He can surely turn your mess into a message
Posted 27 Jan 2010 at 11:12 am ¶
Randy wrote:
My mess became my message
Of this I am quite sure
But then the message got quite messy
And lost all its allure
So I went back to the mess I made
To try and clean it up
But the message had become too loud
So I decided to shut up
…I never quit my day job.
Posted 27 Jan 2010 at 4:04 pm ¶
Troy wrote:
When your mess becomes your message,
when bad breaks are breaking you,
when your rump is in a rumpus,
there is one thing you can do.
Do not cry when you’re in crisis,
nor when foes foment anew.
Simply call upon Lord Jesus,
He will always see you through.
Posted 27 Jan 2010 at 9:19 pm ¶
Marty Funderburk wrote:
I vote for Troy’s version - “rump is in a rumpus”….now THAT’S just pure poetry. I may need a tissue…
Posted 27 Jan 2010 at 11:57 pm ¶
Bones wrote:
Yes, references to God, Jesus such as Him, He should be caps. He is more than a swear word.
Posted 28 Jan 2010 at 2:10 am ¶
apathetic wrote:
If your field is Southern Gospel, then you’re like most of us
You can’t be real succesful, unless you have a bus
If you’re just a weekend warrior, you’re not full time although
If you pull up in a Prevost, the church will never know
You recorded a new project with the Crook name on the label
But with that big bus payment there’s no food upon your table
That knocking in the engine is a forboding presage
Let’s hope you turn this mess into a message.
Posted 28 Jan 2010 at 10:25 am ¶
SG Obzerver wrote:
~Let your mess become your message
Let your sin become your hymn
All your lies and your secrets
and every evil whim
Come out Come out wherever you are
and just give it all to Him
Let your mess become your message
then you’ll have peace within.~
I am thinking Mckameys or The Cookes…I’m not picky…
Reuben or Hubert…lets do lunch!
Posted 29 Jan 2010 at 4:31 pm ¶