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Powerful Lenten song about the day Christ died on a tree.
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Meditational, thought-provoking songs for easy Christian listening...the music of singer-songwriter Nancy Krebs
Welcome to my Soundclick page! I have been a professional actor and singer for all of my adult life. I felt fairly complete doing theatre, films, voice-over work commercials, and teaching. Ever since I was in High School, I also wrote songs--many of them spiritual in nature. I’ve always felt a strong desire to “serve” in some capacity. It wasn’t until 1994, when I turned the process of writing over to God, that all of the avenues that I had been following seemed to come together. I began to write song after song, inspired by the Holy Spirit, singing at a church that supported my fledgling efforts. People kept asking me ‘do you have a cassette or a CD of your songs?” “No”, I would always answer--for the thought of recording never entered my head. Finally, after much soul-searching, my first album, THE JOURNEY, was created, and concerts followed; and more songs followed, and another album followed, and the journey continues. God is not finished yet, and neither am I. The songs I’ve been blessed to write come under the heading of “meditational”, “contemplative”, “inspirational”; and when people listen, they seem to be moved by the sentiments expressed. My fervent hope is that a song will touch someone’s heart, and that heart will be moved to a closer union with God--the Father, who created us, Jesus the Son, who redeemed us, and the Holy Spirit, who sanctifies us.
Song Info
Genre
Pop • Christian Pop
Charts
Peak #621
Peak in subgenre #136
Author
Nancy Krebs
Rights
Voiceworks Productions
Uploaded
January 21, 2008
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MP3 4.5 MB • 128 kbps • 4:57
Story behind the song
This Lenten song was inspired by watching a sever storm outside my window, nad the little tree on the front lawn looked as if it was going to be torn right out of the ground by the wind. I started to think about Good Friday, and what the Father might have felt as He watched His Only-Begotten Son dying for us.
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THE TREE As I watch the storm beat hard against my window; the wind moans, the rain pounds the sidewalk below. There’s a little tree lashed by the gale, bending so low. It looks like it’s praying for salvation; this reminds me so... Of another scene, another barren, lonely tree; where He died for you and me, for all the world to see. I’m reminded of the cross, of His pain and of His loss; how He hung there on that tree, that barren, lonely tree on a day that must have been like this. As he watched the storm that brewed at heaven’s window; felt His breath grow short, His tears trickled to the ground below. The earth trembled as His prophecy was coming true. But He prayed “Father, forgive them, they do not know what they do.” And so, upon that tree, that barren, lonely tree; 5. He died for you and me, for all the world to see. And so upon that cross, in His pain and in His loss; He hung there on that tree, that barren, lonely tree on a day that must have been like this. And yes, upon that tree, that barren, lonely tree He saved both you and me for all the world to see. And there upon that cross, in His pain and in His loss; He hung there on that tree; that barren, lonely tree-- on a day that could have been like this.
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Nancy Krebs
Jan 29, 2008
I wrote this song while watching a storm outside my hotel room in a little town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland during Holy Week. There was a little tree outside getting lashed by this horrific thunderstorm--and it reminded me of Good Friday--how the Father might have felt watching His Only-Begotten Son being crucified.