Yes, I understand. Just yesterday walked in on a colleague at work. He looked dejected and frustrated; even said as much. Reminded me of my “How simple it is” answer. Do you know what the longest journey and the shortest journey each have in common? He said no. Each one begins and ends the same way…one step at a time, one foot in front of the other. It’s not easy, I said, but it really is that simple. I struggle with doing most of the time. All the stuff I feel that only I can do. Then I remember that it all REALLY depends on God’s grace and love and compassion. THEN, and I am just learning to live this one out, MY sacrifice. I finally understand I don’t want to crucify Christ again. How I wound up here? Been thinking about 4Him lately, and just started scooting around. Wound up here. Praise you brother, and God bless you in this holy season. May God’s peace inhabit your home and heart. Pax et amo.

Just like the woman who poured out an alabaster jar of perfume on Jesus, she gave the most impotant possession she had, and it meant something to Jesus because he new it meant sometthing to her Time is what we most treasure and dont want to give up, like the perfume once we give it, we can never get it back. No doubt she could have sold it and made money, and we could use our time to make money, but are we willing to break that jar? When we do what A pleasing aroma that must be to the Lord!

Mark Harris! It’s so good to meet up with you here! We were made to be courageous, we were made to find our wings, we are made stronger by Him in the broken places!! Nearly six years ago I lost my husband Terry to leukemia. He was my best friend, my dearest and dearly beloved husband, he was Christ to me in every aspect of the word!

Our testimony and the testimony of God’s faithfulness, His grace, His mercy answering the cry of our hearts in the dark, painful places, God doing His deeper work in us in the broken places, amazing! Today as I listen to your new song, I know that the Lord has made me, my children Stronger in the Broken Places, I hear God once again singing over me His hope, His heart, His love!

A month or more after my husband went home to be with the Lord, my sister made plans for us to go shopping, her favorite thing to do when feeling blue, I reluctantly agreed. As I emotionlessly followed her through the store, my heart finding no peace, no rest just pain as one couple after another passed us by, I said to my sister as we were leaving… this is so painful, I see all of these couples young and old holding hands, being together and having each other. I don’t understand why God would take Terry home, “I just wish Terry were here.” Sorrow and self-pity they are no ones friends, but God, my dear brother Mark Harris is!

As my daughter Katie and I entered our car, after leaving the shopping mall, we sat there for awhile discussing some of our thoughts about how nice it would be to learn that the boys hunting day may have resulted in a better outcome. Still feeling the sting of sorrow and self-pity we both agreed never to go shopping again! With some joy returning we thanked God for Aunt Chris’s attempt to bring us out of our sorrow. Turned on the radio and the very first words we heard: “I wish you were here!” We turned up the volume, and listened intently to you singing God’s song over us! He lit off my supernatural ears to hear what He would say, as I had just said to my sister, to my daughter, leaving the shopping mall, “I wish Terry were here…” This was no coincidence, this was God meeting us on the road!

Your song “I Wish You Were Here,” revolutionized my whole outlook on life and living, it gave me God’s perpective on where my husband was, it allowed God to speak to me in that pit of despair, from heaven to earth, in a loud voice I heard God and Terry say, “My dearest Tess, I wish you were here!” The song, God’s heart, a message sent to us to help us, to give us courage to press on in Jesus’ name! We would not be where we are had you not written this song! There is more so much more… My son Jon received also as he was praying for direction and healing after his father’s death, heard God speaking to him, in the song Find your Wings!

I know this today, better than yesterday, God can’t wait for all of us to come home, He is helping us find our wings, making us courageous and stronger in the broken places! I can hear Him saying, along with my husband and all the saints that have gone before us, “I Wish You Were Here!” Blessings, with much love Tess

You had me at your headline. . .

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Hi Mark..I tried getting a hold of you through your agent but no luck…I’m looking for a recording of carolers song..can you contact me…thanks paulhillebrandmusic@yahoo.com

Wow! “Being, not doing,” parallels what God has been speaking to me for the past year or so, namely, to believe that which God has said is true instead of putting forth monumental effort to try and change myself, be good, or do all these things I think I’m supposed to be doing. A man of God and precious friend I meet with weekly in a men’s fellowship meeting states often; “HOW PRECIOUS IS THE DOING, THAT COMES FROM BEING.” This man also says; “I BE, BECAUSE HE AM.” Oh, God, transform your Bride by an infusion of love, power and belief! Revive your children in this country, oh, Lord, and seperate us from our idols, our selfishness, fear, and our unbelief. Just like the father of the demon-possessed boy, who questioned if Jesus could touch his son, suffering from unbelief he cried out “I DO BELIEVE! HELP MY UNBELIEF! I ask, Father, that you would help our unbelief. Grant us the grace, power, and ability to believe that which you have said is the truth. You are the God who gives life to dead things, and calls into being that which is not…as though it were. It is impossible for you to lie and you said we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. You said that if we ask for anything in your name (according to your will) it would be done for us by our Father in heaven, so I thank you that you are moving powerfully in the community of your church, awakening our hearts to love, power, and belief. You are infusing your Bride with a renewed focus on the greatest command, and the great commission. As this country and world continues in a downhill slide with increasing speed and intensity, you are beautifying your people as you call us to come out & be seperate, to hate the world and everything in it, to let go of the love of money and things, to love others no matter what or who they are, as we present the love and reality of your Son to this lost & broken planet. Thank you that through Mark’s blog you have called forth some into “being, not doing.” To believe what you have said is true instead of what WE want to believe. To BE your dearly-loved Bride instead of striving to attain some out-of-reach goal, work, or identity that you have not called us to. Reveal your beauty and love to us afresh, oh God, that we would stand in awe, wonder and amazement of who you truly are, what you really think about us & who we are, and your people would know the height, depth, length, and breadth of your love in a way that transforms us and awakens the lost, lonely, hurting, and broken to the abundant life that is available only in a love relationship between the Bride…and the Bridegroom.”

I would really enjoy knowing if the song; “When We’re Together” references someone and the Lord, or between two people. Perhaps it could be both? Probably is, as much really good art (such as Mark’s music) can be “interpreted” in various ways, but as an aircraft mechanic it is a challenge sometimes to wrap my heart & mind around something having more than one true, solid, black & white “meaning.” But, that’s what some good art is, interpretable in many ways, just as God speaks and loves in a multitude of different, personal, wonderful ways.
But, still, if anyone knows about the song, help me out, please, as I may want to use it as a worship song to Jesus, but wouldn’t want to mis-interpret the song, thus using it “wrongly.”

I hope I get to see Mark live someday, as it would mean so much to me (a 44 yr-old man!) to be out in the isle dancing to “When We’re Together!” (With or without my precious 10 yr. old daughter, who’s getting a bit shy as time goes by).

Hi Mark, just wondering if u ever lived in a small town called Elliot? I`m looking for my long lost friend whom has the same name as you and bears your resemblance. So I was just wondering