You are my Refuge

penny November 8th, 2005

I have found a place/I can call my own/Here in Your embrace/Where Your mercy overflows/It’s here that all my doubts and fears just melt away/I lay my burdens down and I look upon Your face

A heart that yearns to love and adore, a love that aches to give and offer, is trusting and full of surrender.

You are my refuge/You are my sanctuary/When I feel afraid/You’re my hiding place/You are my refuge/And when the storm is raging/Underneath Your wings/I rejoice and sing/You are my refuge

When you truly love, it is often necessary to reaffirm it, and have a song in your heart to speak of this love. Say it again…

I have found a place/I can call my own/Here in Your embrace/Where Your mercy overflows/It’s here that all my doubts and fears just melt away/I lay my burdens down and I look upon Your face

We are but inklings in the vastness of time and space. There is only one eternity. We are but specks of it. We are humbled by this majesty.

He who dwells/in the secret place/of the most High God/shall abide/underneath the shadow/the shadow of Your wings

It’s nice how, when you know a song for the longest time, such words can flow like melted butter and honey on the lips.

You are my refuge/You are my sanctuary/When I feel afraid/Lord, You’re my hiding place/You are my refuge/And when the storm is raging/Oh, Underneath Your wings/I rejoice and sing/You are my refuge (You are my refuge…Under the shadow of your embrace… Under your shadow I find my strength, you are my refuge, the one who lifts my heart.. You are my strength Lord… I will run to you…)

It’s been a good 15-20 years since I last listened to Psalty, the singing songbook and the episodes of Colby, the robot. One of our street neighbors has 2 very energetic kids who sing at high volumes and I am reminded of how I used to flood parents’ eardrums with kids’ praise songs. I took out the Maranatha! audio tapes/cds some weeks ago and have been playing them on the background.

Psalty: Singalongathon… Maranatha Marathon… Hallelujah Jubilee! Stay tuned! Don’t touch that dial…

As a child, I learned a lot of songs of praise and worship that I cannot shake off my head no matter how I try. They are literally songs sung from the heart; and a singing which seems to be an involuntary process that runs in the background. I think it is a really nice thing to have a song in your heart for the Lord. It’s like having a prayer offering at every possible “idle” moment.

Christmas is blowing near. Let’s rediscover our christian roots. Profess not only thy faith, but also thy love.

18 Responses to “You are my Refuge”

  1. # jieon 08 Nov 2005 at 7:31 am

    Pre, enge mp3 nito. bukas palad ba me alam ka makukunan? enge naman o

  2. # Penon 08 Nov 2005 at 7:36 am

    konti lang mp3s (30 files lang yata) kasi mostly tapes. ok bigyan kta. ano pa, kasi sayang cd :P girly albums?

  3. # noemson 08 Nov 2005 at 9:12 am

    si psalty!! i used to listen (& sing!) to them all the time also… I have a tape where psalty and the kids went camping. hihihi kaaliw.

  4. # Penon 08 Nov 2005 at 9:24 am

    @amor: wow, you know him too! hehe, sana nga may cds nito, kasi sobrang gasgas na yung mga tapes namin. baka meron kayo sa church… :)

  5. # AJon 08 Nov 2005 at 10:16 am

    pag wala sa church, meron sa internet!
    kailangan lang nating ng DSL! hehe \:d/

  6. # jieon 08 Nov 2005 at 12:48 pm

    h**p://ragamuffin.dyndns.org/FTP/
    user:shane
    pw:barnard
    >dito ibang gospel rock mp3.

  7. # AJon 08 Nov 2005 at 12:56 pm

    naks.

    marunong mag-”h**p://” ah. tama yan para walang trackback dito sa site. :)

    paisa-isa naguupload ako ng mp3 dito para kay dax. baka lang kasi maubos agad bandwidth. subok lang muna sa mga requests.

  8. # daxon 08 Nov 2005 at 1:53 pm

    uy, salamat talaga!!! hehehe…

    astig rin version ni Francis. nabanggit ba when he’s gonna release the F Word?

  9. # AJon 08 Nov 2005 at 4:34 pm

    ayaw gumana ng username/pwd jie

  10. # Penon 09 Nov 2005 at 4:59 am

    sa ‘kin gumagana, bakit ganun. baka blocked sa ‘yo J?

  11. # Margaret Ade-Onojobion 05 Dec 2005 at 4:43 am

    i thank you so much……keep up the god work

  12. # Majestyon 28 Nov 2006 at 8:42 pm

    [...] This is the first time I heard Majesty in slow rock, performed here by Caedmon’s Call. (Thanks Jie for the link, I finally downloaded the songs after a year!) [...]

  13. # josephon 29 Nov 2007 at 9:30 pm

    guys, cno may kanta ng “you are my refuge”?

  14. # pennyon 01 Dec 2007 at 7:17 am

    Maranatha Singers.

  15. # josephon 07 Dec 2007 at 5:12 pm

    ibang “my refuge” ung sa maranatha singers eh. tried downloading it pero ung hinahanap ko ung naka post sa taas where the lyrics goes “you are my refuge, you are my sanctuary, when i am afraid….”

  16. # pennyon 08 Dec 2007 at 2:11 pm

    I distinctly remember having a 2-disc compilation of Maranatha with this song. I might be mistaken… Actually I think I am now.

    I found this sample:

    http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/worshipmusic/mm-itddp-09.wma

    And the album is by The Praise Band. Thanks for pointing that out Joseph.

    I love this song.

  17. # pennyon 08 Dec 2007 at 2:20 pm

    This is confusing me… indeed. See, this is the album I have: http://www.songquery.com/html/title/other/30_years_of_hope_maranatha_music_30_classic_songs.html

    So definitely I was right at least to have said that that Maranatha! had a version of this song. And the link I posted in the previous comment shows a commentary about The Praise Band 10 album being a Maranatha album, so that tells me that this is indeed the Maranatha Praise Band.

    Cheers!

  18. # michelleon 16 Jan 2008 at 8:22 am

    hey i like this song …am not sayn that i love it but its ok i mean is not the best but …well u know

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