New website

Hey everybody, This blog is officially closed as I have gotten a brand new shiny website for everything. Come visit me at http://www.hosshughes.com, like the site, check out the blog, leave some comments and come back often.

I Will Always Love You (with lyrics)

A new song that I surprised Katie with for our 10 year anniversary this week. I love you babe.

Psalm 6 (with lyrics)

Still continuing to work on redoing all of my songs so here's the next one in line. One of my old favorites.

Psalm 1 (with lyrics)

Well, it's been hard to do much in this realm since Levi was born. Who knew a baby was such a big job? :)

As you may notice, none of the links are working on the site right now. I redid the church's website and since everything was stored with the web hoster we were using, I had to find a new avenue to do things. I am going through and redoing all of the songs now and uploading to YouTube. This will be good for me as I'll finally have to be happy with them and will lead to me putting together a CD hopefully within the year.

God's Blessings

So...it's been a while since I've posted anything. I want to let you all know how much Katie and I have appreciated your prayers and support through this time. For those that don't know, in addition to expecting our son Levi to arrive any day now, we also made the decision to close the doors of our small business. Tomorrow will be our last day open. (You can read more on Katie's blog www.katelikesthis.blogspot.com)

To call God "good" during this time would be the understatement of the year. Over and over again He has shown that He is in control, that He provides what we need (physically, emotionally, financially and especially spiritually) and that opening ourselves to His will is always the best and easiest way in the end.

As I await my little boy coming to this world, I know that the lessons I have learned in the past year will serve me well. I hope that I can pass those lessons along to him as well, though if he's anything like his father, I'm sure he'll have to learn some of them for himself.

On Sunday, Ron talked about God's judgement and how it still exists even if we don't believe it. But there's also the flip side to that. Even when we can't see or don't believe that we are receiving His blessings, they are most definitely still there.

Hosea 6:1-3

Every year, each member of the El Camino staff picks a verse for the upcoming year...one to live out, one to remind them of something through the year, etc. Usually, I start looking around September or October for something that might interest me but I have a feeling my verses for 2012 will be Hosea 6:1-3:

Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.

 

He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, That we may live before Him.

 

So let us know, let us press on to know the LORD. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

 

What great promises about God's faithfulness to us in time of need. It is as certain as the dawn so let's presson to know Him.

An Eternal Perspective

Katie and I were talking the other day and she asked me if I thought the angels were praising God in heaven using my songs. Hmmm...I hadn't ever thought about that. I know the Bible doesn't give us all the specifics about what heaven is like so I doubt a verifiable answer could ever be found out. I suppose it's something we'll find out when we get there.

But it did paint an interesting picture in my mind. One of angels getting excited when little old me writes a new song. "Woohoo!!! That song glorifies the Name of God!!! Let's go sing it to our Lord!!!" What a responsibility I now feel thinking that there is even a possibility that this is true.

But it's the same responsibility that we all share. Imagine when you are doing your personal devotion and come across a little nugget in Scripture, something perhaps that few people have ever thought about in the way that you do. No one who has ever lived has ever had the same exact relationship with God that you do. Think about that as you go through your prayer life this week and as you speak with the people around you.