Books by Dale Harris

Books by Dale Harris
A Feast of Epiphanies

Though I Walk, A Novel

Daytime Moons and Other Celestial Anomalies, a book of poems

Second Wind

Second Wind
An album of songs both old and new. Recorded in 2021, a year of major transition for me, these songs explore the many vicissitudes of the spiritual life,. It's about the mountaintop moments and the Holy Saturday sunrises, the doors He opens that no one can close, and those doors He's closed that will never open again. You can click the image above to give it a listen.

The Song Became a Child

The Song Became a Child
A collection of Christmas songs I wrote and recorded during the early days of the pandemic lockdown in the spring of 2020. Click the image to listen.

There's a Trick of the Light I'm Learning to Do

There's a Trick of the Light I'm Learning to Do
This is a collection of songs I wrote and recorded in January - March, 2020 while on sabbatical from ministry. They each deal with a different aspect or expression of the Gospel. Click on the image above to listen.

Three Hands Clapping

Three Hands Clapping
This is my latest recording project (released May 27, 2019). It is a double album of 22 songs, which very roughly track the story of my life... a sort of musical autobiography, so to speak. Click the album image to listen.

Ghost Notes

Ghost Notes
A collections of original songs I wrote in 2015, and recorded with the FreeWay Musical Collective. Click the album image to listen.

inversions

inversions
Recorded in 2014, these songs are sort of a chronicle of my journey through a pastoral burn-out last winter. They deal with themes of mental-health, spiritual burn-out and depression, but also with the inexorable presence of God in the midst of darkness. Click the album art to download.

soundings

soundings
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"soundings" is a collection of songs I recorded in September/October of 2013. Dealing with themes of hope, ache, trust and spiritual loss, the songs on this album express various facets of my journey with God.

bridges

bridges
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"Bridges" is a collection of original songs I wrote in the summer of 2011, during a soul-searching trip I took out to Alberta; a sort of long twilight in the dark night of the soul. I share it here in hopes these musical reflections on my own spiritual journey might be an encouragement to others: the sun does rise, blood-red but beautiful.

echoes

echoes
Prayers, poems and songs (2005-2009). Click to download
"echoes" is a collection of songs I wrote during my time studying at Briercrest Seminary (2004-2009). It's called "echoes" partly because these songs are "echoes" of times spent with God from my songwriting past, but also because there are musical "echoes" of hymns, songs or poems sprinkled throughout the album. Listen closely and you'll hear them.

Accidentals

Accidentals
This collection of mostly blues/rock/folk inspired songs was recorded in the spring and summer of 2015. I call it "accidentals" because all of the songs on this project were tunes I have had kicking around in my notebooks for many years but had never found a "home" for on previous albums. You can click the image to download the whole album.

Random Reads

Great Paradox

[A musical meditation on the mediaiton of the Messiah to start off your Monday]


O Great Paradox, how I marvel
How I wonder at the mystery of your love
Emptied of your glory you brought your glory down to us
How I marvel at your love

Your are prophet and the Word
Humble servant and the Lord
Holy God and his perfect sacrfice
Both the Shepherd and the Lamb
Son of God and Son of Man
The Resurrection and the Life

O Great Paradox, how I marvel
How I wonder at the mystery of your love
Emptied of your glory you brought your glory down to us
How I marvel at your love

You are water turned to wine
Both first-fruit and the vine
Living Rock become the Living Bread
The Greatest made the Least
Both our offering and priest
You gave your life as ransom for the dead

And like a circle whose centre is everywhere
Whose edge is infinity, whose radius is love
You sustain the universe, and yet you died for me
O beautiful contradiciton, that made my sin your victory
How I marvel at your love

O Great Paradox, how I marvel
How I wonder at the mystery of your love
Emptied of your glory you brought your glory down to us
How I marvel at your love


 

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4 comments:

Jon Coutts said...
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January 25, 2010 at 8:54 AM  
Jon Coutts said...

Thanks for sharing the song, Dale.

Just noticing on your sidebar that you didn't like Napoleon Dynamite? I guess I can see that. But boy did it make me laugh. Glad you liked Atonement. I was going to read the book but it is so much like the movie I figured it redundant in light of everything else I've got to read.

Anyway, about your song. I hate that I'm always relating everything you write to Barth, so maybe I shouldn't. Your readers will think I'm a jerk. But heck, as you know its what I'm reading write now, and this is conversation, and based on the grace you've always extended in the past, I'm sure you'll forgive me! So here goes:

I'm intrigued that Barth draws out the utter incomprehensibility of the seeming contradictions that the true revelation of God brings to us (i.e. Lord as Servant, Servant as Lord), but then insists that Jesus Christ in Himself is whole, and that sin is the real paradox, the impossible possibility that in time will be no more, and in fact in the Son of God and Son of Man has been rendered null and void already. Curious.

That doesn't take away from your song, of course. Don't hear me that way. What your song marvels in, if I'm hearing it right, is that this very condescension of God to humanity is so utterly un-graspable from our side, but has nonetheless been given from His. Right?

January 25, 2010 at 8:57 AM  
Jon Coutts said...

i like the guitar parts. nice.

January 25, 2010 at 9:00 AM  
Dale Harris said...

Thanks for taking my work seriously enough to push on it like this, Jon.

January 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM  

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