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In Dave Miller\u2019s new CD, Dave Miller<\/a><\/em>, explores in song how we as Christians can look at our work and turn it from labor to vocation. What got me going about these songs was the confidence of the voice when talking about Jesus the worker and the wonder , even melancholy, when it comes to what we are doing.
\nI begin with his #1 track: \u201cThe Walk, the Work.\u201d It is about Jesus the worker: \u201cHammer, nails, tools of the trade; table, chairs are what he made. Calloused hands, up with the sun\u2026\u201d Lightly sung, and then the beat and tone escalate into this: \u201cEveryday, every step, every moment, every breath, all of his dreams, all of his plans, all were in step with his father\u2019s hands, he knew why he walked and why he worked.\u201d Then the song moves into dedicating each day into the Father\u2019s hands for that will \u201cgive purpose to the walk and the work.\u201d
\nI put it this way: the wonder if what we are doing is good, if it is genuinely kingdom work, can be turned to confidence by living what we do in the work Jesus did before the Father.
\nThere is a genuine melancholy about some of these contemplations; the sort of melancholy that most sense when they wonder if what they are doing is meaningful.
\nDave questions a calling to music in track #7, \u201cWhat Do You Want?\u201d \u201cTired old chords, same same rhyme, we\u2019ve been over this a least a thousand times, it\u2019s my struggle way down here\u2026 But what do You want?\u2026 The simple thing is hard to do, abide in me as I abide in you, the simple simple truth.\u201d
\nIn #9 he asks what it is all about: \u201cMy World.\u201d \u201cThese are the days that try a man\u2019s soul\u2026 but what is it for?\u2026 cause my brother is empty and sister\u2019s heart is cold, at sunset our story grows old<\/em>.\u201d
\nHe contemplates human nature in track #8 with a memorable and memorizable line: \u201cMe from Me.\u201d \u201cThe other day I was thinking, I was wondering, I was pondering: What\u2019s wrong with the man in me?\u201d \u201cAnd it suddenly came to me\u2026 what\u2019s wrong with me is me.\u201d \u201cSomebody needs to pull me from the raging waters that I call me.\u201d
\nThe one who rescues from the ragers waters that I call me is God: Track #6: \u201cGod and the Good.\u201d Here are some of the lyrics: \u201cSun wakes me up and I walk again for my God and the good of it all, I humbly come and I place my day in his hands for his good, he\u2019s the God of it all.\u201d \u201cThere is good in my baby\u2019s cry, there is good in my lover\u2019s eye; there is good in a sunset sky. And God is the good in it all. It\u2019s good He\u2019s the God of it all.\u201d
\nBut, Dave\u2019s not simplistic; he a bit postmodern: \u201cTwo steps forward, somedays two back \u2014 for my God and any good at all.\u201d Not always but \u201cSomeday knowing, someday seeing my God and the good in it all.\u201d
\nBut there\u2019s this, from the very first track: \u201cEveryday, every step, every moment, every breath, all of his dreams, all of his plans, all were in step with his father\u2019s hands, he knew why he walked and why he worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"