Well almost..but I wanted to take some time to reflect on one of my favorite songs off the new album, !CANNONS!

The song is called “Home” and for the first song in my life, a song has made me cry. I never get emotional about anything, but after listening to this song, it got to me. The song itself is not even one of the epic masterpieces that you find in the first few tracks of this album or most of the tracks on the previous two albums, but the final verse of this song gave me hope about life and all the times we screw up in it.

The final verse is sung as follows,

“When I saw you I was ashamed..You were pure and I was stained..But You ran to me and You called my name..There were tears of joy upon Your face..”

I don’t know what it was about that verse, but the picture of me living my life my way, doing things for myself and running it the way I want to colliding with the Almighty God and his vision for my life just got to me. To know I have not walked as close with him as I should, that I’ve done things I shouldn’t have, all of those things subliminally pushes me away from him..thinking why would he want me now? I have heard from the begining of time that that way of thinking is not true and there are so many examples in the scripture that contradict that theory, but it is so hard to realize that in the moment of sinful living. Maybe I just connect to things through music, but hearing those lyrics expressed by my Worship Leader just painted the clearest picture in my mind. Seeing myself walking down a path, looking up at the Lord thinking how he could want or use me now, and seeing him just crying saying “it doesn’t matter, I love you,” that just got to me. It’s a situation any Christian has heard a gazillion times, but it finally clicked for me.

If you haven’t bought and listened to Cannons, you really should, but who am I kidding, anyone who reads this blog is an avid Philler, so carry on!

What better to leave you than with Phil telling you about the song from his own heart!