Calling Out Your Name (Rich Mullins)

This is both a tribute to Rich Mullins, and to the Creator which inspired him. Images carefully crafted to provide music for the eyes as you listen, hopefully with your ears and your heart. Lyrics included, for those not familiar with this truly remarkable artist, that now resides with his Lord.

Calling Out Your Name - Rich Mullins

"Well the moon moved past Nebraska
And spilled laughter on them cold Dakota Hills
And angels danced on Jacob's stairs
Yeah they danced on Jacob's stairs
There is this silence in the Badlands
And over Kansas the whole universe was stilled
By the whisper of a prayer
The whisper of a prayer

And the single hawk bursts into flight
And in the east the whole horizon is in flames
I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

I can feel the earth tremble
Beneath the rumbling of the buffalo hooves
And the fury in the pheasant's wings
And there's fury in a pheasant's wings
It tells me the Lord is in His temple
And there is still a faith that can make the mountains move
And a love that can make the heavens ring
And I've seen love make heaven ring

Where the sacred rivers meet
Beneath the shadow of the Keeper of the plains
I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

From the place where morning gathers
You can look sometimes forever 'til you see
What time may never know
What time may never know
How the Lord takes by its corners this old world
And shakes us forward and shakes us free
To run wild with the hope
To run wild with the hope

The hope that this thirst will not last long
That it will soon drown in the song not sung in vain
And I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

And I know this thirst will not last long
That it will soon drown in the song not sung in vain
I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And with the prairies I am calling out Your name"

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[TatunkaMani]

Nice piece of work. Overall all this was excellent. The only problem I saw was in regards to the Fury in the Pheasants Wings. The image of the Pheasant did not display the beauty of the creation. The Bison shots where Ok, but a herd of buffalo hooves is much more dramatic. But thanks for the effort.

[LadyGreenEyes964]

@TatunkaMani - Work mostly with pics that are either mine or free to use. Video that is is harder to locate, though. Nothing could do justice to the real thing.

[SUSYTASSY]

I just learned of his songs, what a truly beautiful artist, what happened to him?

[LadyGreenEyes964]

@SUSYTASSY - Died in a car crash, back on '97. Darker day for music! Truly was a humble guy. 

[tmwherrell]

The song is personal to me because my father used to take care of buffalo in southwest Kansas and he used to take me to feed them and the Keeper of the Plains that Rich talks about is a statue that is a mile away from my house in Wichita, KS. It is at fork where the river meets. Plus if you have ever drove during a rain in the Flint hills, you would understand.

[LadyGreenEyes964]

Very familiar with the Flint Hills, as it happens. Not "home" to me, but a storm can be an awesome event.

[veelighted7]

yes, this is similar to what I said, "now this is what youtube is for: GOOD CHIRISTIAN MUSIC and RICH MULLINS : )

what a great man! and yet so humble, a modern day John the Baptist

[jrajesse]

We had Rich Mullins for a youth reunion in Texas, and I was surprised when after the concert, they had planned a surprise party for me at the hotel where all of us were staying, and to my surprise, Rich Mullins was in attendance and sang Happy Birthday to me. I'll never forget it.

[clownshoes430]

seemed like a genuine good guy and had a massive faith in god...

[DonTheCritic]

R.I.P. Rich Mullins. Hope you're leading the Lord's choir!

[BuzziRus]

@LadyGreenEyes964 I heard someone say that he said he would like to go to heaven in a chariot of fire like Elijah. Well, he had fulfilled the commission on his life..... and so in a sense he did! wow.. how many of us will live in such a way that before we are old we will have done all we were sent by God to do? I think He was a truely remarkable man of God.

[cindydintn]

@LadyGreenEyes964 Thanks for posting this.

[marieselvak2]

My all time favourite Rich Mullins song.

[decentman2]

Great song! very creative lyrics! (very questionable download - keeps pausing through song!) (i haven't had a problem with other downloads) please fix: enjoy this song very, very much!