Australia shuts down for a couple weeks after Christmas, but seeing I haven't added anything since December 1, some of us take a little longer!
By the end of January, I need to have some songs in the hands of the organisers of NCYC 07 in Perth. I've been working on it, hoping that I might write one completely new song, but at this stage it seems very unlikely.
One song I'm sending is 'Hardly a Secret'. The original version, written for a special occasion in 2001. (I also wrote and recorded a wedding version with Dorothy ).
Like a lot of other songs I've done, it's a conversation, a prayer that's quietly praise-ful to God for being who God is. Not a Lording-it-over, Bossy-britches, Unapproachable King, but a humble servant.
It's a big idea to get your head around.
1. It’s hardly a secret, the way that you are,
you must be the world’s most unusual star:
your birth in a stable, your death on a cross,
you came as a servant to us.
2. It’s hardly a secret, that you were a friend
to so many outsiders, women and men,
to lepers and taxmen, and kids on the street
— a servant will wash any feet.
Living relies upon dying each day;
love isn’t love till you give it away.
May Jesus’ love shine in what we do and say.
Help me be a servant today,help me be your servant today.3. The birds and the breezes, the fish and the sea
— they’re made for each other, just like you and me.
The hunter and hunted, the sun and the moon
— they all sing the same servant tune.
4. It’s hardly a secret, your up-side is down:
the proud have been humbled, the lost have been found,
the dead are raised up and the mute start to sing,
a servant has changed everything.
