More Than Today

After many months, today I finished reading "Apprentice: Walking the Way of Christ" by Steve Chalke with Joanna Wyld.  So it's like a chalke talk with a wyld woman.  (Sorry about that.)  There was much to consider in the book on how to really walk the Way of Christ.  The book ends with this: As Jesus said in Luke 6:40, 'Everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.' May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial     relationships so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of      people, so that you may work for justice, freedom,      and peace. May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer pain, rejection,     hunger and war so that you may reach out your hand to     comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. And may God bless you with enough     foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in     the

At the end of the 1990's and beginning of the 2000's I worked at a church in Davenport, Iowa. I moved to that area to begin a new contemporary worship service at St. John's United Methodist Church. While there I wrote a few songs and used them with the worship band and congregation. One of them was called "You Are My Jesus."  One day I had been walking and the instrumentation for "American Woman" came into my head. I started singing a different tune and words of praise to Jesus as I walked along. I wrote down the song and my talented band, knowing "American Woman," was able to develop the parts they played. It was fun to rock out to this song at worship. Came across it lately and decided to post it. Here it is for you to listen to and download an mp3. Soon I'm going to put the lyrics on for it so you can download those also if you wish. The lyrics say "You are my Jesus, the One that I adore. You are my Jesus, the One I'