Stay with me (song series)

I will wait for you to come.  I need you to hold me near and stay with me.

When words are not needed, and we just need His presence. When the yearning is too deep and cannot be denied, we ache for comfort.  We will be refined.  We will go through hardships.  We will be loved and known and we will make it through. 

Through these words may you just sit and reflect and fall in love with our Savior more and more as we continue to understand that we are His children and He wants us to come to Him as the needy ones we are.  We were created to be complete through Him.  We will never be whole apart from Him. 

I had the joy of writing this song with the help of David Halvorson creating the guitar backbone for this piece and the addition of Tim Painter to add a few more accents.  Thank you, guys, for lending me your gifts!

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Stay with me

Becki J. Buescher David Halvorson

Awaken hunger deep inside

No heart of stone could ever hide

Instill a hope I can’t deny

Find me waiting

Refine me in these flames

Though trials come, find me changed

Cause mournful eyes to smile again

With joy to triumph in the end

I will wait for you to come

I need you to hold me near

And stay with me

Fill me with joyful song

when sorrow tries to pull me down

No wallowing in misery

I choose to rise against defeat

I will rest here in your arms

just carry me when all else harms

no matter what lies up ahead

just hide me in your heart

Oh How I Need You (song series)

But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

John 4:23-24

I find it fascinating, this topic of worship.  I have looked at it from every different angle.  I am not a theologian and will spare you any of my own discoveries on the matter or the dozens of definitions I have created in my history. It comes down to one thing.  

We were created to bring glory to God.  

He will receive it whether we offer or not (for the very rocks will cry out -Luke 19: 40) but what blessings will become when we spend our life honoring and clinging to the One who created it and the One who holds us together.

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Romans 11:36

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Oh How I need You
Becki J. Buescher
 
Lord you hunger for my worship
Yet I don’t give enough for a bite
No wonder the groans I hear
display the yearning I don’t fill 

I need You oh how I need You
Let that be why I sing to
You have given me all that I could need
Yet I still need more of You

You deserve much more than I offer
Of  leftover, end cuts of my day
No casual conforming to praise you
May you reach deep, may I be changed

I want to be real and not for show
To give You my all, let myself go
Not a facade, not because they’re watching
But because You are.

Count it all Joy (song series)

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:2-4

There is not much to add to the reason this song was written.  It is still a struggle to truly “count it all joy” when we face troubled times.  But, God wants us to grow, wants us to live up to the potential He created us for.  The only way we can grow is to be put through the fire…to be tested to see the steadfastness mature, which grows that character.

The one thing that we must do, however, is not rely on our own strength…or we will fall.  He allows us struggle so we can lean on Him and He will carry us through and see the blessings on the other side!

I added a bluesy twist to this song.  I love to sing in a blues style…when my voice will hold up for it!  It kinda fits the message…except there’s a positive outlook on distress instead of “woe is me”…maybe we can make a new genre of “joyful blues?”

Enjoy my song!

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Count it all Joy

Becki J Buescher

Only you can carry me through

These rough moments I endure

To view the blessing beyond my front door

So count it all joy

Count it all joy

When we face trials it shows that 

You are there 

To teach us to grow us

and make us more like You

More like You

Oh the glory you have in store!

Worth living, worth fighting for

Overcoming all pain and suffering

Samuel's lullaby (song series)

I knew He was going to be a boy.  From the moment before he was even in my belly I cried out for my Samuel. 

For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.

1 Samuel 1:27

Sam age 1

The story of Hannah in the Bible touches my heart and I had to realize from the beginning that Samuel was not my child…He was God’s child.  He is a child that I have been entrusted to raise.  I had written this song before Sam was born and wanted it to be one I sung to him often as a lullaby.  Looking back I had not sung to him near enough.  When he was old enough to start requesting nighttime rituals he began asking for me to sing a song.  As I went through a few that he had been learning, he refused them all and in a gentle quiet voice he ask “mommy, sing the be still song”  It was his first request of a song I felt I hadn’t sung enough for him to know well and it brought tears to my eyes.  I have been singing it more often since then and even have him singing it too on this recording, which I pray will be followed by many more musical expressions from this little talented guy.

Sam age 3

Samuel, I love you so much.  You are my buddy – my wise little inquisitive one who is never satisfied with the simple explanations in life.  I pray you will continue to grow your awe and wonder of God, of this world, and of how everything works in and around us.  I am so thankful for you and the humor, joy, and delight you bless me with.

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Samuel’s Lullaby

Becki J Buescher

Little soul find rest in Jesus

Lay still here in His arms

Abide oh child and dwell in peace

The Lord will keep you from harm

Quiet your heart my Samuel

God’s watching over you

Trust in His love and faithfulness

For He will always be true

Be still, Be still, rest your weary eyes

I love you so, forever more and

God loves you most of all

He calms the winds and the stormy waves

and knows you inside and out

He won’t forget you or leave you alone

You are safe and sound

Fire in my Bones (song series)

But if I say, “I will not mention His word or speak anymore in his name,”
His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

Jeremiah 20:9

I love the imagery in that verse.  I wish I could boldly proclaim this in my heart. I wish the weariness I feel was indeed because His Word burns in my soul and I cannot hold it in.  The only way I can attempt to make this statement true is to read His Word…and to know it…really know it, like one would read and re-read a love letter over and over until the paper becomes so fragile that it could almost disintegrate within your fingers. THAT is how I want the Word of God to set in my heart.  For that is what God has left behind for us to KNOW Him more.

I know I am not the only one that struggles with being in the Bible regularly.  I also know when I am in the Word and when I memorize and meditate on what He has spoken to me, I grow.  I grow in peace, in strength, in wisdom, in faith…and the list continues.

The Word of God carries great power and changes the hearts of men.

 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12

I had the privilege of writing this song with two of my very talented friends.  Tim Painter created the guitar arrangement and David Halvorson added more guitar accents.  Thank you guys for imparting your talents!

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Fire in my bones

Becki J Buescher, Tim Painter, David Halvorson

The more that I know you

The clearer I hear you                                           

I press in to discern your voice

You revive my soul

                       

Your timing is perfection

I must wait upon You

You know me better and know better

what is best for me

Like a fire in my bones

Your word burns deep

With a passion I cannot deny

Reveal Your life in me

Taste as see what I have found

Drips wisdom from my lips

Sweeter than honey to my soul

Oh my Lord is Good