Skip to main content

"Still Waters (Beverly's Song)" by Doug Deforest: Navigating Life's Rapids with Faith


Doug Deforest's 'Still Waters (Beverly's Song)' is a soul-stirring Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) composition that beautifully captures the ebb and flow of life through the metaphor of a mountain stream. The song's profound lyrics remind listeners that life, much like a river, can be both gentle and turbulent, but there's an undercurrent of faith that guides us through it all.

The song's inspiration reflects the idea of something greater guiding us through life's challenges. As the lyrics suggest, life's journey can resemble a raging river, yet there's a sense of safety and solace in the belief that faith carries us through even the most tumultuous times.

Doug Deforest - Still Waters (Beverly's Song)The analogy between a river's course and life's journey is vividly depicted, reminding us that we can't always change the course of life, but we can navigate it with faith and confidence. The chorus serves as a comforting reminder that life's rapids eventually lead to still waters, a place of calm and peace.

The song's bridge powerfully describes the turbulence of life's canyons and how, ultimately, these challenges lead to a place of tranquility.

'Still Waters (Beverly's Song)' is a testament to the power of original inspiration. Composed one morning around 3 AM, in a driving rainstorm between Houston Texas and Dallas Texas, the writer heard that all too familiar 'get a pen' voice in his head. He pulled over and had his wife jot down these words, and he has never changed any of the words since then. An original thought from a Power only the writer could know at the time. That of the One who writes words that NEVER need to be changed.

Still Waters (Beverly's Song)' encourages listeners to embrace faith, even when facing life's uncertainties, and trust that there's a higher power guiding them to a place of serenity.

(Related scripture: Psalm 23:2-3, Isaiah 43:2, Psalm 46:10)

Lyrics


https://genius.com/Doug-deforest-still-waters-beverlys-song-lyrics

Connect with Doug Deforest

  • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/002aiIRUWjRp9ee64XX0Mn


You can listen to the track directly on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2Diwxep5mRN3oVIHmtwdK8

Here is a link to the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz3tHCtCmLI

Would you like to hear more CCM music? Then check out our Christian playlists on: https://www.christiandance.eu/playlists

Tags:

Popular posts

"Gravity Of Grace" by Carli Lessing: The Pull You Can't Outrun

Can His grace really pull you back when you’ve drifted this far?  Gravity never asks permission. Drop something, anything, and it falls back to earth without effort or argument. Carli Lessing compares gravity with the way that grace works. You don’t fight your way back into God’s reach. He pulls you there.  The lyrics open with a familiar confession: “I don’t need to run away, hiding from the truth.” Running doesn’t hide anything from God anyway. He “sees every last mistake and selfish path I choose,” and despite that, He stays put. Carli admits she still catches herself trying to earn what God already gave away. That instinct runs deep in all of us. We dress up our effort and call it faith, all while missing the actual gift that is sitting in front of us.  Look at Ephesians 2:8–9: “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”   Grace isn’t a result of our wo...
More >>

"Guard My Heart From Lies" by whispering HOPE: Fully Changed, Fully His, Fully Free

When the lies crowd in, where do you run for truth? There is a whisper that knows exactly when to show up in your head. You hear it in the quiet moments — when doubt creeps in, when old wounds resurface, when confusion floods the mind before you have had a chance to stand firm. whispering HOPE wrote “Guard My Heart From Lies” from the very place where our battles for truth are fought, not on a stage but in the silence of your own thoughts. The song opens with a striking scene: “There’s a whisper at the window, speaking shadows to my mind, trying hard to steal the promise of the life You said was mine.” This enemy doesn’t need to shout. A whisper is more than enough to trigger the rest, unless you know whose voice to follow. And that is the reminder found in this song: “I don’t have to strive for rest, Your finished work has called me blessed.” This kind of rest isn’t something you earn or give yourself after a hard week. It is already yours. 2 Corinthians 5:17 makes this clear: “If a...
More >>

"Thank God I'm Not" by We the Least: Why Your Limitations Are a Gift From God

Relief lives in knowing your limits. Imagine waking up tomorrow and being responsible for everything. Literally everything! Every language. Every cry for help. Every government, every planet, every orbit, every heartbeat — it’s yours to manage, alone, forever. Now, that idea is quite overwhelming and would probably feel like a nightmare, isn’t it? We the Least captured that overwhelming thought in their song “Thank God I’m Not,” a song that turns our human limitations into another reason to worship. The message of the song is simple and liberating: God does a much better job at being God than we ever could!  The lyrics walk us through the impossible math of omnipotence —  “I’d have to hold the universe and make the planet spin with my own two hands.” No sleep. No rest. Being present everywhere, absolutely right every time, and being the greatest by a long shot. Just listing it down is exhausting, but that exhaustion and overwhelm are exactly the point that Skylar is trying to make...
More >>