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As we approach the solemnity of the Holy Family it is good to ponder the marriage of Mary and Joseph.

                   UNASSUMING ONE      
   1)You heard, knew, and read
   2)Of the ancient fall what scripture said
   1)And the promise of the Holy One 
   2)Who would restore the human race 
   2)From it fall from grace
1) No one had a greater desire than you
2) Your heart’s pure prayer humble and true
1) More than all nature and men combined
2)Your prayer moved God to send His Holy one 
1)Your heart’s pure prayer contained 
2)All the cries and hopes of our race

This is a recent update of a song  I wrote years ago and posted of the same name a while ago.  I don't have all the recording equipment I used to have. This update song was recorded on a Google Pixel 5
phone and uploaded to YouTube.  
                                                                  WHO IS THIS CHILD
   D
   In the middle of the night
                   A
   with the fire going out

https://youtu.be/nHrIdIsvwPw?si=zDphdf6hDuUykpSa

My wife Susan wrote a poem about one of her ancestors Nancy Ward. Susan's Father, born and raised in Amarillo Texas, passed on the story of how a Cherokee maiden entered the Johnson Family tree. The Family had a strong Christian Faith that Nancy received as her own faith in the Good Lord. I made a song out of the poem(ballad)

A reflection on the Good Lord's abiding presence through our past even when we are in any way conscious of His presence and mercy

We must use our, God-given intelligence. to develop HIs creation for the common good in all areas 
of science and technology, The Church( through the Second Vatican Council and in the Catholic Catholic Catechism cautions us about the dangers of utopianism. thinking that we can create a heaven on Earth
without God.
Only from a Catholic (Universal revealed Trut perspective) can we properly handle the evils that confront us, be they ecological, sanitary, social, physical, or moral. For believers recognize that evil, like the weeds that grow up along with the wheat, will always shadow the good in this life. Even when evil’s shadow seems to envelop the good completely, as in the horrors of war and school shootings, rays of good still break through to provide us hope that God, though seemingly absent, reigns – right here, right now.

As we prepare for the solemnity of Our Lady's Immaculate Conception it is good to ponder the great Love God had for Mary in preparing her to become the mother of His beloved divine Son (the new Adam) as well as her becoming the new Eve. It is also good to ponder the great humility and obedience she practiced in the great graces the Good Lord gave her
 LYRICS:

LYRICS:
AM/EM AM            EM   AM/ EM   AM       EM   AM/EM  AM       Em/AM
Lord      have mer cy -  Christ  have mer cy - Lord       have mer cy
In your tender mercy
Dear Lord we implore thee
Listen with favor to our prayer
Offered through our Mother Mary
Heed the sighs of your lowly ones
Who intercede with utter confidence
For all your daughters and sons
Who search for You in shadows
You know our weakness and enemy
how we are deceived so easily 
How our hearts are restless
Hungry for love and purpose

LYRICS
IN JOYFUL HOPE
Intro chords   B - A -E 
B7                             E        A7                                    E
We wait in Joyful Hope in silence and sacred  songs
B7                A7         B7                                                E/A/E
Longing to see you longing for your merciful embrace
B7                                                         E

I wrote this song after the 9/11 attacks. In scripture and throughout salvation history we see the Good Lord permitting certain obvious evils to happen for His own long-term divine salvific purposes. The temptation and fall of Adam and Eve and the rejection/crucifixion of our Divine Savior Jesus - all interactions with the mystery of evil that were permitted in the exercise of our free will and His salvific purpose. Every morning in the Office of Readings we are offered the choice of singing Psalm 67 that  tells of God's loving control of History: (You must know that God is offering his salvation to all the world (Acts 28:28).) Here is a section of Psalm 67

O God, be gracious and bless us *
and let your face shed its light upon us.
So will your ways be known upon earth *
and all nations learn your saving help.

Ant. Come, let us praise the Lord; in him is all our delight.

My wife Susan and I wrote the lyrics. One line states love discriminates truth it conceals is a reference to Jesus concealing His divine personhood to most people until his public ministry, when he gradually revealed His Divine identity.