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

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

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

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

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

Blind Dog, a song

This is a song I wrote last year about our beloved family dog Trixie.


Blind dog, the things that you've seen, 
O the things that's you've seen, blind dog
And where have you been, blind dog?
The dreams that you'll dream,
O the dreams that you'll dream, blind dog
Of things yet to be, blind dog
You watched over the heartache and pain
You watched until it was joy again, blind dog

And nobody knew the day you chose us
And nobody knew the day  we called yo by name
How many new tricks you'd show us
How none of us would ever be the same, blind dog

Blind dog, the things that you've seen, 
O the things that's you've seen, blind dog
And where have you been, blind dog?
The dreams that you'll dream,
O the dreams that you'll dream, blind dog
Of things yet to be, blind dog
You watched over the heartache and pain
You watched until it was joy again, blind dog

And one day you'll run with the wolves
And one day you, too, will lie down with the lambs
One day you'll play with the master
Jumping up to kiss his Holy Hands, blind dog

And I don't know if he gave you to us or us to you
But I'm glad we had you as a friend
And maybe you'll be there the day he makes creation new
To greet us at our journey's end
And I don't know if he gave you to us or us to you
But I'm glad we had you as a friend
And maybe you'll be there the day he makes creation new
To greet us at our journey's end!

Blind dog, the things that you've seen, 
O the things that's you've seen, blind dog
And where have you been, blind dog?
The dreams that you'll dream,
O the dreams that you'll dream, blind dog
Of things yet to be, blind dog
You watched over the heartache and pain
You watched until it was joy again, blind dog


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