“Where Might My Lonesome Lover Be?”
Guthrie
arr. Naphtalia
Come On, Love
Blackbird Records (c) 2011
You Sure Look Swell
“You Sure Look Swell”
Lerche
arr. Naphtalia
Come On, Love
Blackbird Records (c) 2011
I’ve Just Seen A Face
“I’ve Just Seen A Face”
Lennon/McCartney
arr. Naphtalia
Come On, Love
Blackbird Records (c) 2011
I Want You To Be My Love
“I Want You to Be My Love”
Bergquist/Detweiler (Over the Rhine)
arr. Naphtalia
Come On, Love
Blackbird Records (c) 2011
Hiding Faults
“At the moment when we hide a brother’s fault, God hides our own. At the moment when we reveal a brother’s fault, God reveals our own.”
–Abba Poemen
The reality is when I say, “This is how you hurt me” she replies, “That is how you hurt me, too.”
Desperado
“Desperado”
Frey/Henley
arr. Naphtalia
Come on, Love.
Blackbird Records 2011
What Is Sustaining Us?
Love, work, prayer, and suffering will sustain us in the future as they have in the past. All who are here now, all who will come after us, will have no other tools than these with which to build.
–Sister Mollie Rogers of the Maryknoll Movement
Regarding Disregard
It’s been a long time, a considerable amount of time, since I have sat in the car until a song finished playing. Maybe I haven’t feel the need. Maybe I haven’t felt connected to what I’m listening to. Maybe it’s because I can’t always afford to feel so deeply. What happens in a song doesn’t always stay in a song, you know. You take it with you.
Today, in complete disregard to my emotional bank account and a 7-hour shift, I plunged into a scary moment. It was full of tears and heartache and reconciliation, all in a song, all in the mall parking lot. I just sat there and swam in the clear, honest river of poetry streaming from my car speakers.
Maybe this was made for me,
Lying on my back in the middle of a field.
Maybe that’s a selfish thought.
Maybe there’s a loving God.
I closed my eyes, breathed a strong breath, and opened the car door. I have that moment now. I have it because I took it and held it in my heart.
Sara Groves
Maybe There’s a Loving God
All Right Here (in my heart)
The Simplicity of Love
Love begins and lives in simplicity. When you make a phone call, when you send a text. When you write an e-mail or mail a card. When you say yes to the tire swing, yes to gelato, yes to tea time. When you smile with your eyes. Love, real, honest love, basks in simplicity, and yet is mysteriously the most weighty feeling we have.
Forgotten Words #2
Words we love, but sometimes forget to use, or at least forget to use with sincerity:
ardent
estimable
graceful spirit
luminous
spark
imbued
warrant
wretched
Which will you use today?
Naphtalia 
