Lullabies

Lullabies I play my children are typically not necessarily played for my children as much as I advertise.

Lullaby No. 1

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: ""Lullabies I play my children." I've been neglecting beauty in my life as of late. Out of fear, I try to put my attention to comfort and simplicity. I ignored the fact that, in so many different ways, beauty scared me. Part of that fear is rooted in avoiding feelings of envy. When I hear something so incredibly beautiful—when it overwhelms me with feelings of wonder and excitement—I can become jealous and angry. "I could have done that." "Why didn't I think of that?" But God has been showing me a different way to approach beauty. He tells me that beauty is how we know Him, love Him, worship Him with our lives. And this is something I want to dedicate my life to. I turned 30 this year, and I think this is what I want this decade to be defined by: experiencing His beauty, enjoying it and creating it. If my life is a canvas, I want to make Him beautiful things. I want to share this with my children. That they may experience God and His healing, wonder, beauty, and goodness. That He is the only thing worth living for (and everything worth living for). "One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire." Psalm 27:4"

Lullaby No. 2

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: ""Lullabies I play my children, Pt. 2" You fumble with your phone, trying to not get in the way of the important work the doctors and nurses are trying to do. You don’t yet understand who these little nuggets are. They’re so much cuter than you thought they would be. You wonder if they are supposed to look like that, if they’re healthy. You take as many photos as you can trying to make sure you capture every moment. You study their faces, making sure you never forget who they are. They are that important. You can’t believe they are comfortable. Your son has never looked happier swaddled in your arms. Your daughter looks like she is exactly where she is meant to be at mama’s chest. You can’t believe or imagine what happens next. It’s no longer your life, it’s their life on your shoulders. God finally helps you solve that problem you couldn’t figure out. “You’re done. You know what happens next. Time to give that to someone else. Time to share that with your children.”"

Lullaby No. 3

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: ""Lullabies I play my children, Pt. 3""

Interlude

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: ""Lullabies I play my children (Interlude)" I often wonder why I like what I like. In a conversation with a friend, I was talking about what I wanted in a partner. Looking back, this must have been a point in my life when I was restless, aimless, single. I was asking that friend about his marriage (specifically his relationship with his wife). “Do you find it hard to figure out what she wants?” I asked. “Dude, I don’t even know what I want most of the time,” he replied. And ever since that has stayed with me. Do we really know what we want? Or are we just conforming our desires to the world and everything in it? Is what we want radically shaped by what we consume or is it truly an autonomous, individual desire? I know my preferences are shaped by my desire to take things around me and change them (maybe “fix” them to my desires). I often view the world as things to be fixed rather than things I can shape and transform. As I grow older and mature as a man, I’ve subconsiously conformed to the things I can fix. @iamfujimura writes, “In building for the Kingdom now, we must move beyond the goal of fixing things and instead set our hearts on the art of Marking. Again, redemption is more than fixing; it is a feast of healing and transformation. Redemption is being part of God’s art toward the New Creation. But the path toward the New Creation weaves through the brokenness of our world, our own lives, and the fissures created by various factions of faith institutions. We may not need to provide the world with proof of God’s existence, or to coerce others to see the reality of God as we experience life, if we are Making generatively. Perhaps, instead, we need to create and make through the fissures of our lives in an authentic way. Then the word “fix” will have a meaning beyond mere repair, as we shall see.” (Art + Faith: A theology of making, pp. 54-55) #artandfaith #culturecare #music #production #producer #lofi"

Lullaby No. 4

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: ""Lullabies I play my children, Pt. 4" There are plenty of fears your mother and I have about your lives. Sometimes those fears are unfounded, sometimes petty, and sometimes larger than life itself. We worry you aren’t eating enough; that we’re depriving you of the food you desperately need; that your body is allergic to the food we give you. We worry that we might not have enough resources to give you a good life. We worry that we might not have enough peers and friendships to provide you with the community you need. But we are learning to throw all our cares onto Christ. We are spending time with him every day getting to know His person, His wants and desires for us and for you. We are learning that He holds you in HIs hands and has given you to us so that we might help and steward you toward a relationship with Him. We do all these things knowing, He has entrusted us with giving you our all. If we are to give even less than our best, we wait for a mightier consequence from Him. We also hope you know that we are sinners too. Just as He chose sinners to follow Him, we acknowledge that we are not worthy to carry this responsibility. But we gladly delight in Him and everything He has trusted us with. We attempt to not only know and believe, but live like these things are true. So today I’m thankful for you hands, your fingers, your feet, and your toes. Regardless of the number on each, I’m thankful for the bodies he has entrusted you. I pray that you might use them for His purposes and His glory. I’m thankful for your fingers—whether they are big, small, strong, weak—that they point towards your body as a whole and ultimately point toward His goodness. You u have ten fingers and ten toes—if God gave you more or less, I know He would use them to do great things. Ten fingers to work, play, and enjoy the things of God. Ten toes to help you not only know but live and walk like you know Him personally. He is greater. There’s just something about Jesus. “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" #jesus #music #scorefollower"

Lullaby No. 5

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: ""Lullabies I play my children, Pt. 5" They say babies don’t smile at people until month three or four. It makes me wonder what your little minds are up to in that time. I’m sure it’s just simply to survive. But after your little tummies fill up with food and you've somehow found out how to sleep... when I see you squirm, what are you thinking? What is it that won’t let you smile? I want you to know who I am, just as I’m sure you will develop a deep urgency and desire to know and be known. While you squirm, I’m sure you’re finding it just as hard to be a baby as I find it to be a new parent. We share everything: sleep, space, meals, cuddles. When you cry, I try not to. When I cry, I’m sure you’re even more confused. My version of crying looks like impatience and sleep deprivation. My shirt isn’t soaked with tears, but with vomit, pee, and poop. My cries look like sitting back up at 4am just after putting you down thinking that we would at least get one more hour of sleep. My version of crying feels like wanting to give up. That moment when I can’t go on in the middle of the night, I keep on going anyway because it’s not about me. He reminds me to die-to-self, to pick up my cross, just like Him. I’ve been thinking about how parenting is holy work. It’s necessary work. In each moment of changing diapers, the repetition can wear you down. But the golden moments, when you are happy (or not crying); when I sing to you and I see your legs fall and your arms relax and your face unfurl; when everyone actually sleeps for more than two hours; when I get to drink my morning coffee as the sun rises and lights up our world; when I realize I’m the healthiest I’ve ever been because I get to take care of two tiny humans; when I get to see our backyard totally lit up by Christmas lights at 3am. Those are the golden moments I’m so thankful and happy to be your dad. I hope and pray I honor you, love you, and steward your life for your heavenly father. #lullabies #scorefollower #Ellie #Eli @arie_thiede"

Lullaby No. 6

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: "Lullabies I play my children, Pt. 6"

Lullaby No. 7

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: "Thank you to everyone who has reached out and been so affirmative of this music lately. It's been so much fun to rekindle composing and to compile some lullabies for the Littles. ❤"

Lullaby No. 8

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: ""Lullabies I play my children, Pt. 8" You've finally learned how to smile. I try to remember to pray for you often and most of the time it's out of survival-mode. Most times, I just want you to be OK. But sometimes there's moments that everything goes right. Not perfectly, but just as they should. I thought of these moments when John Dutton said last week: “I’ve come to believe perfection only lives in little moments. Can’t be sustained over hours, just instances; little wisps of time, and then the world becomes imperfect again." So in those moments that everything goes right, I pray that God would make you successful at anything you put your mind and hands to; that He might give you grace to know right from wrong and to have the humility to confess when you've sinned against yourself, your friends, or God Himself. That you might enjoy life, healthy or sick, rich or poor, popular or mundane, and the list could go on forever... I ask Him to help you; that you might know He is for you, never against you. I want you to not only trust Him with your life by faith, but to also know what it means to find the paradoxical joy of picking up your cross daily and the love to lay down your life for your brothers and sisters. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." You can do this, and I will always love you; I will always pray for you. @arie_thiede"

Lullaby No. 9

Lullaby No. 10

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: "This has been the slowest year of my life. Every month you both are changing so much. New teeth, longer hair, deeper eyes, stronger bodies; I can’t even begin to think how your personalities will change. As your bodies grow, I continue to get glimpses at your souls. Elijah, you have fun and you invite others with your smile. Eliana, you are serious but loving and cling to those your trust. Your mom and I have seen how you live in all four seasons now. Born in fall, all we could do was think about you—even in our dreams we couldn’t stop obsessing over you. The winter I went back to work. Even though it was cold you showed us your smiles and how cute you could be in your bear costumes. Spring was filled with rain and crawling for the first time. Summer was dry, but we played at splash pads every chance we could. You still nap a lot and your sleep is a marvel. I still tell your mom how I can’t believe God made humans so dependent, yet we can trust Him to protect and grow your bodies 12 hours every night. Almost one year old and many more, God willing."

Lullaby No. 11

Lullaby No. 12

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: "Good morning! Still alive, still making music. This video is a practice in contentment for myself. After @arie_thiede and I cleaned our garage, I wanted to use it as a make-shift studio. I brought in all my DIY gear (microphone, computer, interface) and used my phone as a camera. Making this video was a meditation of sorts to remind me that "if He dresses the lilies in beauty and splendor, how much more will He clothe you?" Please enjoy! As always, please visit my Artist streaming sites (Spotify, Apple Music, etc)--your support is always appreciated!"

Lullaby No. 13

Jacob Thiede, composer on Instagram: "For my facebook-less, social media-less friend, David Evans on his 30th Birthday. The best piano-tuner, heavy machinery operator I know."

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