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Writing lyrics has been my favorite creative endeavor for my entire adult life. My English degree from BYU has benefitted this creativity. I have lived in several areas of the country and found composer who share my joy in creating music
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Writing lyrics has been my favorite creative endeavor for my entire adult life. My English degree from BYU has benefitted this creativity. I have lived in several areas of the country and found composer who share my joy in creating music
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I Wonder Why is a Christmas chaismus
Inspired by Neal A. Maxwell's The Christmas Scene
"Just why did God choose to have Jesus born in an obsure manger? To live in an obsure country, on an obsure planet, in an obscure solar system, which is at the outer edges of the Milky Way, a comparatively ordinary galaxy, one of a million million galaxies? We do not know."
Lyrics: Why did God choose a manger to comfort a holy King?
Why did He choose small Israel for such a sacred thing?
Why did he choose this pale blue earth to have the angels sing;
When there are countless worlds in space
He is endlessly creating?
Why our Milky Way's vast edges
For His only earthly Offspring?
Then on a little galaxy
To find shepherds worshipping?
While a million, million galaxies
Through all the heavens wing;
Why this great vicarious gift to us
From a Father All-Knowing.
I know of starlet settings,
The Savior's humble birth,
And of the temple teachings
While He was in His youth.
I know of tireless travels
Down Nazarene roads;
He said that even foxes
And birds have better abodes.
I've read of mighty miracles
That I cannot ignore.
Yet there in Grim Gethsemane
He bled form ev'ry pore.
I know His life and death
Will redeem us from the fall,
And still His resurrection brings
New life to us all.
Why with a million galaxies
Did He come to this sinful sphere?
Why on the fringe of our universe
Did Jesus volunteer?
Why, oh why with worlds unnumbered
Do we merit this Godly seer;
Who came from realms of glory
Condescending to be here?
Why on this painful planet
The Good Shepherd appear?
In Judah's tiny Zion,
Why a Savior's voice do we hear?
Why on that crude cradle did
A star shine bright and clear?
For a sacrifice eternal
Drawing all His children near?
Cosmic questions, ageless answers;
I know Jesus obeyed His Father's will.
I know He is the Son of God,
The great King, Immanuel.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
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