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Looking For God (Using A Spotlight)
By Jeff Johnson
He's got it all hooked up,
He's gonna plug it in.
He's got it pointed up to look for God again.
So he turns it on and he scans the skies and he searches everywhere.
And he spends his life 'til the day he dies believing someone's there.
He's rented office space up in a satellite.
He's got a stronger bulb and unobstructed site.
So he turns it on and he scans the skies and he searches everywhere.
And he spends his life 'til the day he dies believing someone's there.
Looking for God using a spotlight ...
Back on the earth below we're working at our jobs,
No time to scan the skies, but time to realize,
That when I look at you and you look at me, we only see the skin.
If we could look inside, I bet we'd find a searcher there within ...
Looking for God using a spotlight.
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Old Germany
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Old Germany
By Jeff Johnson
Dinkelsbuhl, Germany 1985
Fighters fly above Old Germany,
Shaking all the buildings as they pass.
An older woman walking with a cane,
Raises it and shakes it at the sky.
Following the path around the wall,
Above us birds are singin' in the trees.
The fighters turn and make another pass,
I raise my head and cry into the sky,
"All we're wanting is the noise to stop for a moment or two."
And all this music that I've made,
With the notes that I have played.
And all the words that I have said,
Just makin' noise in someone's head,
"All we're wanting is the noise to stop for a moment or two."
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Mere Breath
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Mere Breath
By Jeff Johnson
"Surely every man at his best is a mere breath."
– Psalm 39:56
In memory of Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
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Time Waits For You
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Time Waits For You
By Jeff Johnson
Inspired by the cathedral clock in Strasbourg, France
Time waits for you just around the bend,
I've seen him there.
What will you say when you see his face?
You'll see his face.
Some people say Time will be your friend,
Others will swear that he'll be your end.
It only matters if he will let you pass,
Will he let you pass?
Earth, like a clock, moves around the Sun,
Man, like the hands, move across its face,
Treading a path from day to day,
Infant to young man to old man.
Some people say Time will be your friend,
Others will swear that he'll be your end.
It only matters if he will let you pass,
Will he let you pass?
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Wind And Water
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Wind And Water
By Jeff Johnson
" . . . and Peter got out of the boat, and walked on the water . . . But seeing the wind he became afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, "Lord save me!" – Matthew 14:29b - 30
When I am older perhaps I'll understand,
Complacent faces in a spoiled land.
When I am older,
When I am older.
Outside the wind blows through the rusty chimes,
Like revelation blowing though my mind.
The more I listen, the more I understand,
That like the windchimes, I'm blowing in this wind.
The more I listen, the more I dangle ...
Walking across the surface,
Feeling the wind and water,
Dangling, I'm dangling.
Out from the dark around me,
Someone is reaching to me,
Save me,
Please, save me.
I am dangling in this wind.
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Monet's Failing Eyes
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Monet's Failing Eyes
By Jeff Johnson
The French painter, Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) at age 82 was forced to go through with a delicate cataract operation. In his subsequent reapprenticeship, he painted what he saw – an agglomeration of color, which would later be a source of inspiration to many abstract painters.
Looking at a window one can sometimes see his face,
But when he looks beyond it, he can see another place.
Similarly what we see can change in many things,
Visions such as these occur in many, many things.
Focus on an object that is placed in the foreground,
Yet the vision changes as you glance to the background.
There's a million things that I have never ever seen,
In the million places of this world that I have been.
Like out of focus paintings in Monet's failing eyes –
How I wonder if I'll ever know what they all mean,
All these visions in my life that I have ever seen.
When I was much younger all these pictures seemed so clear,
But with age the lines have faded causing me to fear.
What is true and what is not are often dressed the same,
Angels and their counterparts both play within this game.
Tell me wise man do you really understand my plight?
Is there anything that you could say to shed some light?
Somehow I can sense that things are different today,
What I am and what I will be hinges on this day.
Like out of focus paintings in Monet's failing eyes –
How I wonder if I'll ever know what they all mean,
All these visions in my life that I have ever seen.
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Fallen Splendor
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Fallen Splendor
By Jeff Johnson
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He Is Not Here
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Receive Your Sight
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"Receive Your Sight"
By Jeff Johnson
" 'What do you want me to do for you?' And he said, 'Lord, I want to receive my sight!' " – Luke 18:41
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Sacrament (I Will Not Forget You)
"How can we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
May my right hand forget her skill,
May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,
If I do not remember you." – Psalm 137:4 - 6a
So hold me,
Hold me,
Hold me until I'm warm.
Guide me,
Guide me,
Guide me beyond this storm.
I will not forget you,
I will not forget you,
If I can remember this song.
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Poem
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Poem
By Jeff Johnson
Words by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 - 1564)
Down from the loftiest star a splendor falls to the Earth,
And draws desire from afar to that which gave it birth.
So love and heavenly fire and counsel wise,
The noble heart finds most in starlike eyes.
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Jeff Johnson
ArkMusic recording artist, composer, producer, and Selah worship leader has released numerous solo recordings along with collaborations with Irish flutist, Brian Dunning inspired by Stephen Lawhead's novels and guitarist, Phil Keaggy. Jeff's latest release is EREMO, an ambient instrumental collaboration with Indie artist, John Van Deusen. ... more
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