Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Song notes, pt. 1

I thought it might be nice for anyone who is interested to know the "story behind the song," so to speak. I'll start with the title track from the "Amazing" project.

"Amazing"
written by Jonathan Meek, Bradley Trosen and Jenn Thune

Each of us is a masterpiece, a carefully fashioned poem, penned by God Himself, yet many of us struggle with feelings of inadequacy or a sense of worthlessness. With this in mind, I wanted to put to music what God actually says about us: "I am fearfully and wonderfully made." "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus..." "He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world." I showed the idea to two of my songwriter/worship leader friends, Brad Trosen and Jenn Thune, and we wrote the song over several weeks, meeting together and firing emails back and forth with various ideas. We probably tossed as many lines as we kept before we got the right ones! The final product is a song that both exalts the God Who made us, and recognizes that He likes what He made. He said so. "Jesus, You're so amazing!"

Until next time,
Jon