The Everblack

This is my awesome brothers song that I added a chorus and edited a few words. Enjoy and check out his blog: http://aroadworthtaking.blogspot.com/

A blackened sky, a wasted land, a shattered heart, and shifting sand. A blood stained knife, a bullet torn corpse, a fallen fortress a blood slick floor. Here is pain, here find death, behold the misery, behold his wrath.

Welcome to the Everblack.

Welcome to the Everblack.

Welcome to the Attack.

Welcome to the War, is this all we’re meant for?

Welcome to the Everblack.

See the sickness, and become diseased, play with fire, and burn without cease. We are helpless, we are doomed. And for hope, there is no room.

Welcome to the Everblack.

Welcome to the Attack.

Welcome to the War, is this all we’re meant for?

Welcome to the Everblack.

This is our fate, this is our road, here’s where we’re headed, and that’s all to be told. But there’s a God, there’s a Love, there’s a Savior watching from above. His name is Jesus and he has saved you. He laid aside his will as the nails pierced through. But not even Death could claim, the Son of God, the blazing flame. He lives in you behold divine love. Behold this man, who is your God. Hold his hand because,

You’re rescued from the Everblack.

You’re rescued from the Attack.

You’re rescued from the War; you’ve found what you’re meant for.

You’re rescued from the Everblack.

You’re rescued from the Attack.

You’re rescued from the War; you’ve found what you’re meant for.

You’re rescued from the Everblack.

You’re rescued from the Everblack.

The Way You Are

Hey guys! So first off let me apologize for not writing in like an eternity! Okay so my last post was about my newest song (which BTW i might get to sing on Sunday! TEXT ME UNCLE C!) and i realized i never told you guys about my first song! so here we go:

Concept: Basically the song is about not worrying about what anybody else thinks about you because in the end their opinion of you doesn't matter. God's opinion is the only one that matters. My favorite line in this song is "Don't let the world tell you who you are." Because i feel like we do that A LOT. And the bible says to not be conformed to the patterns of this world. (C28 Baby! They don't have one here :( ) So yeah.

Story: Okay so I went camping with my dad a few weeks before my mom's birthday. And since i knew we were going to PC (PC=Panama City. P-Cola= Pensacola ;) ) for her birthday, I came up with this brilliant scheme. Since my favoritest uncle in the world is the pastor of my mom's old church ( the church we always go to when we visit) i decided to ask him if i could sing a super-secrete birthday song for my mom the Sunday after her birthday.  And so we had a brief convo about it and so we agreed that that was what was going to happen. While showering one night ("I always think better when i'm wet" -Spencer Shay -iCarly call me nerdy ;) ) I came up with the chorus for my song. When i texted my uncle, I had a chorus but i just couldn't get anything else. So when we left for PC i had a chorus and an idea for a verse tune (which i changed completely). It was Saturday; Mom's birthday. I was supposed to preform this song the next day. And had i prepared? no. I hadn't even finished writing it!!! It was that same night when i posted my blog post entitled "My life Sucks." or something like that. So we're at my cousins house (the crazy wild madhouse where you can't even get peace and quiet in the bathroom!) and it's like midnight. I'm in my cousins' room and i'm trying to write but i can't get anything! I had to preform this song in less than 9 hours! At this point I'm like completely freaking out! So i just give up for the moment, my mind too stressed to think. Then my mom comes in and tells me it's time to leave. YIKES!!!!!! So we drive back to my grandparent's house (AKA Mema and Papa) she goes to bed and i pretend to rest but only for like 5 minutes knowing i CANNOT sleep until this song is written. I take a deep breathe and start to pray. I open my computer and just start writing. To this day i do not know where those words came from. But if i had a guess i would say they came from someone whose always got my back ;). 5 minutes later i had written this amazingly awesomely incredibly EPIC song!!! it was awesome! After i wrote it? I saved (MULTIPLE times :D ) turned on some tunes, and went to sleep. The next morning was chaotic. Rehearsing the song in my head i'm running around like a chicken with my head cut off, trying to get the song to print. Finally we got it to print and just in time too! So i get to the church and my uncle hooks me up with the little head set mic things. Which since i'm used to singing into a mic on a stand, was a little weird. I told him it really wasn't working so he brought out a mic and a stand. Which made me feel like i was perfectly in my element. So not only did God write this amazing song, but the tune that was in my head fit perfectly with the chords i use for all of my songs. It was amazing!!!! I rehearsed for a while, made some people cry, and then church was about to start. I sat on the end row which was weird, but it would've been even weirder to climb over my mom's lap to get out. Especially since she had no idea what was going on! So i get my cue (I was a little slow but hey i made it) and go up to the stage and do my thing. It was amazing! I loved the experience and i feel like i made an impact on a lot of peoples lives. So that's the story of how the song "The Way You Are" came to be.

In other news: lol I've always wanted to say that ;). I got Google chrome which is epic!!! I can play Angry birds anytime i want to haha! It's pretty awesome (SPELL CHECK!) :) So yup that's pretty much it! Well i am exhausted so i'm going to go to sleep now! Love you guys! Night!
-MJR

To Save A Life/Brokeness

HEYA!!!!!!! So I'm at a much better place in my life right now. I cried so hard last night i don't know if they're aren't any tears left in me. It feels so great to be able to have such great people at church who love our family and care about us. So I wrote a new song called "To Save A Life." Not trying to copy The Frays song,  "How to save a life" which is a big favorite of mine. But basicly the song is about the life around us and how we never really know how much longer these people will be with us. And it's one of my favorites that i've written. and i came to a realization. I took out the song (after re-coping it on another page) and riped it to peices. I then took some tape and peiced it back together. I hung it up on my wall and thought it just looked really cool. But there was more to it than that. It was a symbol of something. It was my life. It had been riped to shreds and slowly peiced back together. It was more than just words on a page. It was a story. Somthing to be heard. To be learned. That's what we are. We're broken, incomplete. God spends hours taking tape and piecing us back together. Is it perfect? No. But we were never perfect to start with. That's why the world is such a broken and messed up place. Because there is so much brokeness and so many people who are not willing to be peiced back together.

So basicly the song is kind've like that too. I remeber this story someone once told me; This boy passed this girl everyday on his way to school. They never said a word to each other, but they saw each other everyday. One day the boy said one simply word to her; hi. They next day the girl stopped him and said "thank you". He asked what for and she replied "When i passed you, i was on my way to go commit suicide, but your words stopped me. It made me think someone acctually cared." That story has been on my mind for a long time. So basicly my song is about if you knew all you had to say was "hi" and you could save someones life wouldn't you do it?

Truly letting go (No more holding on)

So recently, our pastors been talking alot about letting go and letting God take control of your life. Well at least thats what's been speaking to me recently. And everytime i hear it i think "I did let go. I gave God the problem and he'll fix it if thats what he needs". Then suddenly i realized i haven't givin God my problem. I keep saying i'll handle it i'll handle it. when the truth is I can't handle it. I'm a human being i can't handle the things that God does. I have a small arogant brain that thinks it can handle anything and not get crushed. When in all honesty the truth is i'm just holding on the problem thinking i can handle it.
I know i can't handle it and am truely trying to just let it go. Please pray for me during these tough times. And always remember holding on doesn't fix anything- it just delays the problem being solved.
-MJR
P.S. My birthday was on easter so i'm now offically a teenager! :)

Black Tattoo's are Breaking Me Again

Hey!! Sorry i haven't written in a while i've been busy. What have i been busy with? Well for starters choir. I'm singing a song (on my cross it's really cool!) and i'm in the choir. But more than that i've been busy with the play Alice through the looking glass. At plt for those of you who know what PLT is (pensacola little theater) anyway so Carley drives me to and from plt, and she introduced me too the most awesome band! It's called *drum roll* FM Static!!! they are my new favorite band!. So anyway so far my two favorite songs from Fm Static are Black tatto and Breaking me again.
Black Tatto: it's basiclly a song about show how we're christians and living Christ out just like a black tattoo. Show his love through your actions the way people would see this big black tattoo
Breaking me again:k Pretty much a song about God forming us the way he wants us. When we fall into presure then he's breaking us and molding the way he wants us to be.
And then theres Inside out. It is so amazing and it speaks for it self. Here are the links for all the songs:
Inside out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwkUIZaBxvU&feature=autoplay&list=UL3eRWrHl6RfA&index=24&playnext=7

Black Tattoo:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml9Bl9yhBu4&feature=BF&list=UL3eRWrHl6RfA&index=21

Breaking me again:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDnw2-TEkUw&feature=BF&list=UL3eRWrHl6RfA&index=23
Love you guys!  Be safe!
-MJR

Grenades

Hey eveyone!! so right now i'm listening to my new number 1: grenade by Bruno Mars. Some parts of it seem like God is speaking to me. NOT the part when he says," Tell the devil i said hey when you get back to where your from" NOT that part lol. The part when he says,"But I'd still catch a grenade for ya. Throw my hand on a blade for ya. I'd jump in front of a train for ya. you know i'd do anything for you. I would go through all this pain take a bullet straight through my brain!! I would die for you baby but you wouldn't do the same. ohhh no no no oh ohhhh oh" I mea it's true God did die for us. And even though we say we would die for him. Would you?? "I would DIE for you baby. But you WOULDN'T do the the same" "I gave you all my love and you tossed it in the trash" Don't we? Don't we just go and slap him in the face? We just say you know what? It doesn't matter. Then on sunday we show up and are like "blah blah blah yeah i'm a christian whatever" he DIED for us. We won't even die for him. "but you won't do the same" So what to do? Start acting like christians. He has called us to do things. We need to no matter what. "i would die for you baby." But would YOU do the same?
-MJR (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S17AFAHOLDU)

Catching the bigger Fish

Hey everyone. So last night i was playing one of my favorite games on my DS, animal crossing wild world. It's basicly, really fun, Your a human and everyone else are animals. And you go around and do all this stuff it's like pretty much "real life". Well so last night i was fishing, one of the many things you can do on animal crossing, and this big fish was swiming away from me. I ran to the other side of the bank to catch it. when i threw my line out it turned and went back the direction i came from. I ran back to the other side hoping to catch it then, and just as before, when i got my line out the fish swam to the other side. This happend again and again. I wanted to catch that fish!!! But what if i had opend my eyes i would've seen that there was an even bigger fish right in front of me. Not moving- almost wanting to be caught.

As christians we think, "Oh we need missonaries out in china and africa and all of these places" which are the big fish. What we don't realize is that China has more christians in it the America does. America is the bigger fish we need to open our eyes to and catch.

Josh and I were driving home some people from youth group last wednsday and our friend Ralf, who was in the car too, was talking about collage and what classes he wants to do (i think he's a senior but anyway he hasn't graduated yet). And We were talking about some things and he said, "You know there acctually more christians in China then there are here. It gets me that we're sending out all of these people to do mission work in a place that is better off then this one." That really got me. I've been thinking about it all week and I feel like i needed to share that with you guys. There is nothing wrong with being a missonary to other countrys, but before we go "China doesn't have any christians" Look around your own world. How many true christians do you know?

So that being said, go get your line, or your bible, Your tackle box, or memorize some scripture, and go catch some fish :)
-MJR