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Members: Brian R. Diehl

BRIAN R. DIEHL: Not just another Acustic guitar player- Transparent and surrendering best fits Brian R. Diehl. This guy was just made to play! Brian R. Diehl comes out with homemade music, homemade Album titled "The Door is Opened. Loving Jesus to his fullest, Brian writes transparent and surrendering lyrics to remind us, on our knees is where we belong before the LORD.


12/28/04



The weight of my life is uncontainable for me to carry! I can not take this life any more into my own hands. It seams that every time I have an edge there is a part of me that Is taken away. It is an inner struggle that is not containable. I look to Jesus and know what His word says but it seems to not be enough but I know that IT IS. I believe that I am being stretched out like a piece of fruit that is laid out in the heat of summer to be dried. It is good to eat as it is off of the tree. But there is something about dried fruit. It can be taken anywhere for any length of time. It does not spoil like fruit off of the tree does.
I am being taken to a place that I have never been before. And then next it will be as if have been here before. Then I will be taken to another place I have never been before To be taken again to a place that I have never been before. God is this what it is about being led through the valley of the shadow of death. The death of me the birth of the faith that you are drawing out of my heart the death of my desires and the birth of your heart. The total dependency on you and your word. To where there is nothing else in me that I can stand except the mighty foundation of You and Your precepts. God I need you to come down from heaven and take me in Your loving arms. My soul is crying out my mind is tattered I need your touch I dont know where to turn. But in all of this I pray that my heart ALWAYS finds rest in You and Your Word. Take away from me all and anything that I have tried to attach to You and my relationship with You. Sift me Purify me make me to lay down in green pastures lead me besides the still waters cause me to HUNGER with a fervent desire to cling to You and Your Precepts . You are God I know that to be true and that you sit on Your mighty throne and will not falter. I know that my life is in Your hands. But I loose sight at times soo easily. Bring me back to the simplicity of You and Your love. I can not see but YOU DO I can not hear but I know You are speaking I am looking for you and I am hoping in you coz your word tells me that You care about me and That you will take care of me more than the birds of the air or the lilies of the fields. That Your thoughts towards me are GREATER than the sands upon the sea shore.
But God I am failing to see. Please have mercy on me and all of my life. I know that I am here to serve You. May it all grow out of Truth and desire to know and love You more everyday.

Amen