Spring is here at last, and I’m so thankful for that fact. This season inspires lots of people to work in their gardens. You can see the beautiful fruit of their labors all over town as bulbs bloom and well-tended shrubs burst into color.

Spring rouses other folks to exercise. I’ve been seeing a steady stream of these go-getters running and jogging and power walking along the sidewalks of our neighborhood for a couple of weeks now.

Spring makes me want to burst into song. All that fresh air and sunshine has always planted a melody deep in my heart. I can envision myself on a mountaintop alongside Julie Andrews, breathing in the beauty of God’s creation and belting out notes from The Sound of Music with all the energy I can muster.

While I usually sing hymns or arias, I’m also fond of show tunes. I admire the talents of the composers and lyricists alike, although I don’t always agree with the messages modern lyrics convey.

That’s why, for the past several years, I’ve channeled my springtime music-making-impulse into writing new words for popular songs and posting them on YouTube. Here’s the one I published this morning, just in time for Good Friday.

It’s a celebration of the great love that compelled Jesus to die on a cross in our stead. The revised lyrics are based upon one of my favorite passages in Romans:

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

– Romans 8:38-39

Maybe springtime and sunshine and contemplating Christ’s love for us has the same effect on you as it does on me. If so, you can use these words to sing along:

Never Enough

I know neither life nor death,
Neither height nor depth,
Can separate me from
My Savior’s unending love.

Nothing here and now,
Nothing future years may bring
Can make his hand
Loosen its grip on me.
He’ll hold me forever!

All the strength of a thousand armies
All the powers of evil and darkness
Will never be enough —
The victory’s been won!

Satan can try, but he’s too little—
His ruse may woo the world but it’ll
Never be enough
To sever Jesus’ love
For me.

Never, never, never sever
His love for me —
For me!

Never enough, never enough
To sever His love for me!
For me, for me!

All the strength of a thousand armies
All the powers of evil and darkness
Will never be enough —
The victory’s been won!

Satan can try, but he’s too little —
His ruse may woo the world but it’ll
Never be enough
To sever Jesus’ love
For me.

Never, never, never sever
His love for me —
For me!

Never enough (never, never)
Never enough (never, never)
Won’t sever His love for me.
For me, for me!
For me.