Just recently i've discovered how much i've neglected God in my daily life. As as you can expect, though it's holidays, i've been feeling heavy laden and very little joy... and yet, God has faithfully been calling me back. Well, won't get into too much detail about what exactly has been happening, but yup. Today i was going to start further work on this blog but i thought i felt particularly in a song-writing mood so i sat at the piano and did the usual. trying think of what to write.. asking God to tell me what to write about... I asked Him for a kinda theme song for the site.
And so i started thinking up stuff.. i came up with a chorus.. but a very typical one.. so i decided that perhaps now was not the time. However, after i put the pen and paper away, another melody started, and a first line came up.. "Search my heart, my God, I pray..." And in less than an hr the whole song was completed and recorded. Can confidently say this is another God engineered song... I know what it's like to do things on my own effort and this is certainly not one of them. I have only one 'complaint' to Him... why is this melody sooo familiar??

This is my song to you God!

hmm.. it must have been about 4 and a 1/2 years back when i first caught hold the idea of writing songs. I'm not even sure when, why or how it suddenly hit me to do so. It was probably just after my O'level exams when i started using some of my free time to work on a (not-so-nice) melody. I think i got through about 8 or so bars and then had to leave for Adelaide. btw, that bit of the 'song' took me at least 2 months... =P. I think my motivation was as much myself as God. And as u can guess, only half complete.. *grinz*

After arriving in Adelaide, i soon forgot all about the song-writing idea and continued with the rest of my life (probably coz i didn't have a piano with me). However, that was not to be the case for long. Soon after i settled down in church (well.. somewhat), i found out about this guy there who had written a number of songs and those songs were actually being sung by the congregation! Wow.. revelation! ..to me at least. I know that's actually how it works for other songs to but seeing it first hand was more err.. impactful. A song that really touched me was 'He's Stolen my Heart'. I'll post the lyrics up later and u can see why... Through it, God opened my eyes to the truth that He could and would actually USE the songs to reach (..His and other..) people. And that's when i became more seriously involved in song-writing.