[Michael.SF.]

One of my favorite Van Morrison songs. This one shows his spiritual side:

High Summer - Van Morrison

Love the harmonica and Hammond B in this one:

Checked in to the tiny village by the lakeside
Settled down to start a new
Far away from the politicians
And the many chosen few

Far away trom the jealousy factor
And everything that was tearing him apart
Far away from the organ grinder
And everyone that played their part

And they shut him out of paradise
Called him lucifer and frowned
'Cos he took pride in what god made him
Eyen before the angels shot him to the ground

[Major Matt Mason]

Richard Thompson - Fire In The Engine Room

Eddie Money - Gimme Some Water

[drjimmy]

Jump Into the Fire—Harry Nilsson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfjNpgZ4C5Q

Every time I hear this song I start looking around for helicopters.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Fire on the mountain………Marshal Tucker Band

[Michael.SF.]

Another one by Van the Man:

Into the Mystic -- Van Morrison

We were born before the wind
Also, younger than the sun
'Ere the bonnie boat was won
As we sailed into the mystic

Hark now, hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly
Into the mystic

[MAKOTHEDOG]

Fire... Jimi Hendrix

[waterhill]

Fire Lake- Bob Seger

Fire on the Mountain- Marshal Tucker Bband

[MRadtke]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0K6ojmGZA

[dfwgator]

Water- The Who

[drjimmy]

Water Song—Hot Tuna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6giiYDlqRQs

[GSWarrior]

https://youtu.be/36ry58mMlOI?si=n0wQwsq6G0PdrCfh

Beachwood Sparks - Water From The Well

[dfwgator]

XTC - Sacrificial Bonfire

[Third Person]

On Fire - Galaxie 500

[Fiji Hill]

Seemann, deine Heimat ist das Meer (sailor, your home is the ocean)--Lolita Ditta (1960)

This song about a sailor who delights in visiting exotic locations overseas comes from Austria, a country with no seacoast.

[dfwgator]

Steely Dan - Fire In The Hole

[The Mayor]

March 22

Next Step of Love

Bible in a Year :

• Joshua 10–12
• Luke 1:39–56

Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

1 John 3:18

What would cause someone to help a competitor? For a restaurant owner named Adolfo in Wisconsin, it was the opportunity to encourage other struggling local restaurant owners adapting to Covid regulations. Adolfo knew firsthand the challenges of operating a business during a pandemic. Encouraged by another local business’ generosity, Adolfo spent his own money to purchase more than two thousand dollars in gift cards to give away to his customers to use at other restaurants in his community. That’s an expression of love that’s not just words but action.  

Building on the ultimate expression of love demonstrated by Jesus’ willingness to lay down His life for humanity (1 John 3:16), John encouraged his readers to also take the next step and put love into action. For John, to “lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters” (v. 16) meant demonstrating the same type of love exemplified by Jesus—and that would most often take the form of everyday, practical actions, such as sharing material possessions. It wasn’t enough to love with words; love required sincere, meaningful actions (v. 18).

Putting love into action can be hard because it often requires personal sacrifice or disadvantaging ourselves for another person. Enabled by God’s Spirit and remembering His lavish love for us, we can take the next step of love. .

Reflect & Pray

How have you experienced love in action? How can you take the next step to love someone in a practical way?

Dear Jesus, please help me to follow Your example and take the next step to demonstrate genuine love in my actions today.

[Fiji Hill]

De Zuiderzee Ballade (the South Sea ballad)--Sylvain Poons & Oetze Verschoor (1959)

The Zuiderzee (South Sea) was a bay in Holland that was sealed off from the ocean and is now called the Ijselmeer (Lake Ijsel). The song is about a kid who finds an old photo album that shows what life was like for the fishermen who operated in the bay before it was sealed off.

[posterchild]

Well I read the bible from stem to stern
To see what a feller like me could learn
Well the times get hotter, then the cities burn
It ain’t no different than the caveman time
—Danny Barnes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmXhynjfOzA

[posterchild]

Now I’m riding on a fountain of fire,
my back to the earth I go higher and higher
why me
— planet P, Tony Carey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w0jfK7Tt9k

[fidelis]

Chaka Khan - Through the Fire

Wildfire · Michael Martin Murphey

Set Fire to the Rain · Adele

Earth, Wind & Fire - Serpentine Fire