Day 24 - Psalm 69

Today personally (well as you read this, yesterday) was a bad day for me. I'm down. I'm depressed, and right now I don't really see what is going to happen tomorrow that is going to make it any better.

As a musician, I tend to gravitate to the guitar to help me through these times. For years I have played a song that is based on Psalm 69. I wasn't clever enough to write it, but I do really like it. The band, Lifehouse, has been a personal favorite of me and my wife for years. The song is appropriately called Storm and was only played live by the group for the first decade of its existence.

It is personal. Painful. Private.

It is this song I have gravitated to time and again on bad days to call out to God as David did: in song.

So as the tears fall and the chords play, these are the words on my heart. Thank you, David, for this amazing psalm, and thanks to Lifehouse for this amazing song.

STORM - Lifehouse

how long have I
been in this storm
so overwhelmed by the ocean's shapeless form
water's getting harder to tread
with these waves crashing over my head

if I could just see you
everything will be alright
if I'd see you
the darkness will turn to light

and I can walk on water
and you will catch me if I fall
and I will get lost into your eyes
and everything will be alright

I know you didn't
bring me out here to drown
so why am I 10 feet under and upside down
barely surviving has become my purpose
cause I'm so used to living underneath the surface

if I could just see you
everything will be alright
if I see you
the storminess will turn to light

and I will walk on water
and you will catch me if I fall
and I will get lost into your eyes
and everything will be alright

- submitted by Nolan Davis