A January Tan – New Release Coming!

I have a new song submitted for release, hopefully later this week! The is entitled “A January Tan”. The song has a good story. We had the opportunity to attend the City Quake gathering event in January. A chance to travel to Florida and flee the Pennsylvania winter for a little is a welcomed event. My wife and I tacked on a couple days at Cocoa Beach before starting the drive home. Saving some space, my ukulele came along to keep my fingers busy and maybe start on a new song. Some interesting chords and melodies happened and now there is a new song. Back home, i spied the concertina my wife’s cousin gave me. I did promise to learn a little and get it into a song.

Back to the beach and the moment a song started. I had this innocent little story song lyrics going through my head, and the conversation in my head about other topics. In the midst of the songwrite moment, I was discussing the term, “equity of outcome’ with myself. The idea being, if you were from Pennsylvania and wanted a nice beach tan in January, you needed to go somewhere like Florida to get it. The only thing you might get in Pennsylvania in January is frostbite. So I had a couple quirky lines of verse lyrics about getting a January tan on the beach and was thinking about the chorus. But before I could write one lyrical word, there was an interruption and it was a fairly forceful one that stopped me in my tracks.

So now I had a silly beach song going on in my head, a moral and ethical conversation about the word “equity”, and an interruption from God. The interruption was God speaking to me (may seem odd to folks buts that’s another post to write about).

I was asked a simple question: “What does the word “equity” mean to you?” The second part came before I even had a chance to properly think about a response.

“Equity is not a system to game for our own getting ahead. It is not about a plan to get what we think we deserve to get. It is not about receiving at all. It’s about giving. Giving…. Equity is that everyone has an equal chance to love one another. Love one another.

Jesus summed up the commandments and the Law into two statements. 1. Love God. 2. Love one another. That is what we need to account for in the outcome of our lives. Not accomplishments or achievements. It will be about how we loved. Like the workers in the vineyard, where all the workers get the same pay no matter what time of the day they started?

So, just love one another. Love one another.

Hope you enjoy the song!