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  1. Purple Flowers

From the recording Purple Flowers

I love the little hook on the guitar on this one. I started plunking around on this the day before I went in for my treatment to take this radioactive iodine 131, and I had a lot of worries. It's lethal, yet somehow the cure for this cancer. Modern medicine is amazing. We actually weren't even sure if I was gonna be treated with it, since that same day they'd found the metastasis to my hip. They considered surgery, but the area is too small, so they decided to give me a double dose of what they were gonna give me initially.

RAI is usually tolerated really well, except when you get into higher dose, like mine was. I am grateful however, it was nothing like chemo or radiation. That night I was up, not feeling well, scared, wondering is this gonna work? I picked up the guitar Tim got me for my hospital stay and started plucking this line around again. I thought of all my worries and how God was there with me... that line about "Just can't sleep" I couldn't get myself to sleep. I was too scared, but there was God, comforting me as He always does, assuring me, my life is in His hands, I can rest there.

Lyrics

He is faithful,
To provide your every need..
No need to worry,
He''ll guide you where He'll be.

Just on the other side, of the mountaintop
Down low, where the rivers flow.
He's waiting, for you.

Take your worries, leave them at the door,
Don't want to see 'em 'round here,
Don't want to fake it, no more
Lay your burdens, leave them at His feet,
It's where they belong,
He's gonna bring you release

Money,
And the things we just can't change.
Why can't we think about, purple flowers in the fields,
How their leaves, they get so green?

It's a sad situation, just can't sleep,
Gotta change my reaction, change my reaction

Take your worries, leave them at the door,
Don't want to see 'em 'round here,
Don't want to fake it no more
Lay my burdens, leave them at His feet,
It's where they belong, He's gonna bring me release...
Bring me release....