Author Archives: John Lage, Jr.

I wrote this song on one of those days when you look back over the bad times in your life, and wonder how you could’ve gone on so long, so wrong. While this exercise may not make you feel like … Continue reading →

I led a spiritual writing class at our church through the Lenten season. I experimented with some free form songwriting. This song started as one of those and I finished it tonight after several scattered days of revisions and editting … Continue reading →

I worked yesterday with Pastor Cindy Yanchury on an advanced lay speaking class. The topic is evangelism. I woke at 4 AM this morning, thinking about the discussion we had about why we had to talk about our relationships with … Continue reading →

I’ve start to read and digest some books on spiritual writing. Today was a day when I just tried to write what I was feeling without stopping to hammer out the words and the rhythms. It worked!! The real question … Continue reading →

I woke one morning not too long ago, with the image of God as a blacksmith at work on our souls. I’ll let the words below tell you about what happened next. They came to me when I thought of … Continue reading →

A couple of things made me jot down the phrase ‘Hallelujah moments’. The person who provided the equipment for our optical mission to Guatemala, Holland Kendall, used that term to describe that moment when someone realizes they can see again … Continue reading →

This song is very autobiographical. The first night really happened, pretty much as described. The night mentioned in the second verse happened literally hundreds of times in the next ten years and the last verse describes my life since breaking … Continue reading →