1980s Christian Music!

Waaaaaaay off the beaten path....
This album got played a LOT in my space.

These are two of my favorites

First Call : True Love



Bebe and Cece Winans: Heaven

Someone posted some Russ Taff on here earlier.

The River Unbroken is probably one of my favorite songs of his. I'd bought this tape after graduating from high school (1989). I'd just started my journey of faith maybe a year earlier?

When I got on the bus to leave for bootcamp in fall of 1990; this song came on my tape and I remember sobbing.

I can still see my parents standing in the bus station doorway.

Waitin for the train to come. I keep waitin for the train to come.
Dreaming of a never ending rising sun. I keep thinking about the world to come.

My life packed up in a suitcase; old man staring from the doorway.
My hope tarries in the distance. Love comes on the wheels of my deliverance.

Where is the river unbroken.....

Waitin for the train to come. I keep waitin for the train to come.
Keepin my appointment with the One who lives, in the heart of everythign that is.

All night, sleeping at the station. Dear God it's hard not to be inpatient.
I watch the windows of forgiveness. I cry and my word's my own witness.

Where is the river unbroken......

Saddam had invaded Kuwait in August of that year and I was going off to war.


Then I remember 25 years later; reading a memoir of someone who was in the British army during the American Revolution. (Sargent Roger Lamb). His dad had sent him to live with an uncle when he was a young teen because he wanted to join the navy with his brother. His father didn't want either of them in the military.

He joined the army because he'd gotten himself into a bit of moral trouble and had done something he was too ashamed to tell his parents about; even though he knew his parents would not have disowned him. He still felt like he needed some guidance though and believed the military would help him in that regard. (It would at least give him a job.)

The colonies had revolted and Lamb describes getting on the ship and watching his parents on the dock as the ship sailed away. He said the look on his dad's face remained burned in his memory his entire life and he cried too when he left.

Lamb survived the war; but did not make it back to England before his father died.

When I read that memoir; all these memories of my parents and myself at the bus station came flooding back. 200 years between; how frequently does this same scenario repeat itself?

I cried all over again too.

Where is the river unbroken......

I saw Silverwind in concert in 1987. I suppose their best songs were earlier than that.