Let Us Worship(Draft 1)

Just one word "wow." This Monday began my lyric research based on an "opening prayer" that touched my heart last Sunday while visiting a Lutheran Church here in Boise, which was about "living stones."

The lyrics are based primarily on these scripture passages: 1 Peter 2:5, Isaiah 28:16, Ephesians 2:19-22, 1 John 4:17, Romans 10:9-10, and primarily 1 Peter 4:8, talk about some great text to use for a worship song.

The original title was "Living Stones" and was going to be a slow ballad. Started out writing the lyrics and for several hours the progression nor melody appeared.

What only appeared was frustration…so I went back to how I usually start writing instrumental tunes with chord progressions and rhythms. I next listened to Bobby McFerrin's piece entitled "Remembrance" and Kathryn Scott's "Hungry." Within in one hour, the chords and rhythms for the piece were completed and were based on the secondary and tertiary ideas of the song vision: worship. The melody took about two hours and the lyrics a few hours later.

What originally was going to be a ballad turned out something totally different. Sudden rhythmic nuances, different chord changes, etc. I was trying to be creative but drawing primarily theologically for the lyrics.

Welcome your comments, feel blessed with the inspiration, and that it is the first brush stroke of this original worship song that was just started a little less than four days ago.

Garth