Oh To Be Loved - Thad Cockrell video free download

This song is from Thad Cockrell's "To Be Loved" album. From C.S. Lewis "Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

We can't—or I can't—hear the song of a bird simply as a sound. Its meaning or message ('That's a bird') comes with it inevitably—just as one can't see a familiar word in print as a merely visual pattern. The reading is as involuntary as the seeing. When the wind roars I don't just hear the roar; I 'hear the wind.' In the same way it is possible to 'read' as well as to 'have' a pleasure. Or not even 'as well as.' The distinction ought to become, and sometimes is, im- possible; to receive it and to recognise its divine source are a single experience. This heavenly fruit is instantly redolent of the orchard where it grew. This sweet air whispers of the country from whence it blows. It is a message. We know we are being touched by a finger of that right hand at which there are pleasures for evermore. There need be no question of thanks or praise as a separate event, something done afterwards. To experience the tiny theophany is itself to adore.

The lyrics:

Mmmmmm...

Oh to be loved by Jesus

Oh to be loved by Him

Oh to have joy and peace within

Oh to be loved by Him

He knows the names of my sorrows

He knows the names of my fears

Why should I let them bother me

For I know he is near

Oh to be loved by Jesus

Oh to be loved by Him

Oh to have joy and peace within

Oh to be loved by Him

Mmmmmm...

And if no other will love me

In this life I own

There'd be no love I would long for

I know I am His own