Yahweh Is Love
"Yahweh Is Love" - Written & Recorded in June 2020 by Dave Riffel & the "River Rock Music Collective": Imma Ndayisaba (vocals, percussion); Nshimirimana Emmanuel (vocals); Ertis Bonjaw (vocals); Solange Mbudi (vocals); Manasse Mayizo (keys); Mamou Ghislaine (vocals); Juliet Toage (vocals); Barisi Toage (percussion); Danusia Beatz (drums) Dave Riffel (bass/acoustic/vocals)
CHORUS:
YAHWEH, YAHWEH, YAHWEH, YAHWEH
YAHWEH, YAHWEH, YAHWEH, YAHWEH
YAHWEH, YAHWEH, YAHWEH, YAHWEH…IS LOVE
(repeat 2x)
VERSE 1:
LOVE... LOVE...
(LOVE…) IF LOVE HAD HANDS
(LOVE…) WHAT WOULD LOVE HOLD?
(LOVE…) IF LOVE HAD FEET
(LOVE…) WHERE WOULD LOVE GO?
(LOVE…) IF LOVE HAD FOOD
(LOVE…) WHO WOULD LOVE FEED?
(LOVE…) IF GOD IS LOVE,
LOVE IS ALL I NEED
(sing chorus 2x)
VERSE 2:
LOVE... LOVE...
(LOVE…) IF LOVE HAD LIPS
(LOVE…) WHAT WOULD LOVE SPEAK?
(LOVE…) IF LOVE HAD EARS
(LOVE…) WHAT WOULD LOVE HEAR?
(LOVE…) IF LOVE HAD EYES
(LOVE…) WHAT WOULD LOVE SEE?
(LOVE…) IF GOD IS LOVE,
LOVE IS ALL I NEED
Centering prayer:
Help me to be the verb “love” today.
If love had hands, what would love hold?
If love had feet, where would love go?
If love had food, who would love feed?
If God is Love, Love is all I need
About:
The word “God” has so much baggage, I’m not sure if any of us even know what we’re talking about when we use the word. Divine presence? Yahweh is the “unspeakable” name of God - the sound of breath itself. Another “name of God” is “LOVE”
1 John 4: 7-8: Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:17-18 God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us.
There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love.