RESOURCES
You are There
Psalm 139:7-10
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast
Psalm 139 doesn't try to explain how God can be everywhere at once—it simply stands in wonder at the fact that He is. A God we could fully comprehend wouldn't be much of a God at all.
"You Are There" was written to live inside that wonder. Above all and yet closer than we could dare to believe. Holy, Holy, Holy, and Abba Father. This is the God who fills the heavens and knows the number of hairs on our heads, who is more than we imagine and nearer than our prayers. We don't sing this to understand Him—we sing it because we're surrounded by Him, and that's enough
CHORD CHART & LYRICS
My Heart Sings
Psalm 96:1–2
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day.
The Psalms remind us that praise often rises from remembering. My Heart Sings was shaped by that kind of awareness — the quiet realization of God’s daily mercies and the steady witness of creation to His goodness. It began as a snapshot of a season in my life, and years later it still carries the same heartbeat.
The song opens with a simple question: “How could I sit here in silence, knowing the love that you’ve given me?” It’s a line born from recognition. When we pause long enough to notice what has already been given — grace woven into ordinary days, mercy new again this morning — something in us responds. The heart moves before the mind can organize it. Song rises. My Heart Sings is an offering flowing naturally from a heart that has remembered.
light & love
John 1:1-5
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
The Gospel of John tells us that light and love are not ideas but a Person. Light that enters darkness. Love that takes on flesh and stays. Light & Love was written as a response to that truth, that God does not stand at a distance from our pain, but steps into it with us. This song reflects the quiet power of a God whose presence changes us simply by being near.
ABOUT THE MUSIC
These are worship songs meant to be lived with—not just performed. They're written for both corporate gatherings and personal reflection, for moments of prayer and the ordinary rhythms of daily life.
They're shaped by the same vision as The Wilderness Way—the conviction that all of this life is lived in the wilderness between rescue and restoration. Not as something to escape, but as the place where God is with us—forming, shaping, leading, and loving. These songs hold both honesty and hope, trusting that God’s presence is real within life’s unresolved tensions.
There's no prescribed way to engage them. Use them in corporate worship, small groups, or personal devotion. The invitation is simply to stay present with God in the midst of real life.
WILDERNESS WORSHIP COLLECTIVE
Music has always been the primary way I've learned to express and receive emotion. Long before I had language for faith or theology, music was where I processed anger, fear, longing, and hope—and eventually, where my faith took shape as well. Sometimes beautifully, sometimes messily.
These songs span decades. Some were written 10 or 20 years ago, during hard seasons I didn't yet have the words to name. The themes that would eventually become The Wilderness Way have been woven through my spiritual journey from the beginning—I'm only now learning to see them clearly. Returning to these songs and reimagining them over the past year feels less like nostalgia and more like continuing a conversation with God that never really ended.
Calling this a collective is an act of hope. The hope is that this music will become part of a wider community of musicians, artists, worship leaders, and churches who believe worship can be honest, grounded, and shaped by lived experience. If you resonate with that vision—listening, writing, singing, or creating from the wilderness—you're welcome here.
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GO DEEPER
These songs and The Wilderness Way: Finding Freedom in Life's Fractures grew from the same soil—a conviction that God meets us not beyond our struggles, but within them.
The book is for those who've been told to "just have faith" when what they needed was permission to be honest. For anyone learning that following Jesus doesn't mean escaping struggle—it means walking through it with eyes open to both beauty and brokenness.
If these songs resonate, the book goes deeper.