My Diary for last week:

Wednesday: wrote a 4-verse poem (‘I asked God for a wave, and he sent me the tide’).

Thursday: re-wrote the poem.

Saturday: took my favourite line from the poem (’Show me where the rain is born and where the thunder hides’) and wrote an entirely new poem, then set it to a tune.

Sunday: Realised the rhythm of my poem would only ever make for a bad tune. Changed the rhythm and wrote a new tune. Wrote it on my guitar, sitting on a bass amp in the storeroom behind the kitchen at church because youth group had the run of the rest of the place.

Songs analysed: 4 Beatles songs, 1 Norah Jones song, 1 Jeff Buckley song.

Psalm I’ve been wrestling with: Psalm 139.

Book that’s had the most impact on me this week: The Screwtape Letters.

Thanks Julie for sitting with me while so I could record the song in one take, late on Sunday night.

Thanks to Adelaide Metro for the beautifully-timed train at the end.

I am not like you
I am flesh and bone
God, you are like water
And I am stone
Show me where the rain is born
And where the thunder hides
But if you show your glory
Cover my eyes

You don’t have to chase
Even when I run
Even if I rise
On the wings of the dawn
I could search the ocean depths
To find a place to hide
But you will be there waiting
Cover my eyes

I’m a see-through man
When you search my life
Underneath my skin
To the heart inside
Every thought I’ve ever had
Is written up in lights
But if you show your glory
Cover my eyes

I was not yet born
When you wrote my days
Carried from the womb
To the lonely grave
On this road from dust to dust
I need a guiding light
But if you show your glory
Cover my eyes

Tags: week 23 2026, View by:Michael Morrow