so looking to the sky ¡ will sing and from my heart to YOU ¡ bring…
A Sidewalk Prophets Cover
For the past few months, I’ve been doing late-night recordings of songs in my bathroom because the acoustics are good. No fancy recording equipment—just my phone, the Lexis Audio Editor app, my guitar, and me. This one is a cover of You Love Me Anyway by Sidewalk Prophets.
© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson
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There For You 🎶 Cage On The Ground…
Before Lacey Sturm ever stepped on stage with Flyleaf, she had already lived through the kind of darkness most people only write about. As a teenager she battled deep depression and survived a suicide attempt… and what came after reshaped everything. Her faith didn’t become an image or a lane — it became the core of who she was. That’s why her voice hits different. It’s not just tone or technique… it’s survival, it’s prayer, it’s something real breaking through. A lot of those Flyleaf songs weren’t crafted for radio… they came straight from her journals, her struggles, her conversations with God. That’s why you feel them more than you just hear them.
What makes her story even more wild… she walked away from it all in 2012, right when things were peaking after New Horizons. No drama… no crash… just a decision to step back for her family and her calling. Most artists hold on tighter at that point — she let go. And when she came back, it wasn’t to pick up where she left off… it was to start fresh with her own solo career. Same intensity, same raw honesty… just even more personal and stripped down. That contrast you hear in her — the softness and the scream, the broken and the bold — that’s not a style she learned… that’s a life she lived.
There For You 🎶
Year: 2005
Album: Flyleaf
Cage On The Ground 🎶
Year: 2012
Album: New Horizons
✝️ 1 John 3:18
“Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.”© 2026 bryanforchrist | All rights reserved
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What was the best compliment you’ve received?
I’ve had some kind words over the years… but one stands above the rest…
It came through a window…
Back in the late 90s… I was living in a little downstairs apartment outside Atlanta… just me… a guitar… and a lot going on in life…
Most nights I’d sit by that open window and play… sing… pour it all out…
What I didn’t know…
Was that someone was listening…
There was a girl in the neighborhood… and for about a month… she would come by at night… lean up against the outside of my building… just out of sight…
And listen…
She told me later… she’d wait, hoping I’d be there… that my songs helped her get through things she was dealing with…
That she would just stand there… breathing it in… and for a little while…
She could forget her life…
One night… she finally said hello…
And I’ll never forget all the things she said to me…
That my music gave her peace… even if just for a moment…
I’ve never had a better compliment than that…
Not applause… not praise…
Just knowing that something coming out of my heart… reached someone else’s…
And helped them breathe a little easier…
That’s everything to me…
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If you want to read the full story, it’s here…
https://loia.blog/2025/12/21/the-window-song/ 👈
Proverbs 25:11 (KJV)
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson | All rights reserved
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Yesterday, the Lord dealt with me all day about writing short stories in the future.
He reminded me of a time when I was about 10 years old. I shot and killed a bluebird that was resting on a clothesline. I was so sad. I held it in my hands, crying.
I took it to my mother, thinking we could save it — but it was too late.
Yesterday, God brought that moment back to my mind.
And He gave me an idea for a story… how that bird could represent Christ dying for me.
He also gave me the title
Soft Blued Kings
I spent three hours last night just trying to write the opening sentence. With His help, this is what I came up with
Way up in a lone Georgia pine, proud were the wings of two —
a bird of a father, a son true blue.
This story will take some time.
I’m going to take it slow…
and allow the Lord to help me write every bit of it.
It will be my first short story like this, and maybe the first of many.
© 2026 bryanforchrist
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Tonic 🎶 Take Me As I Am 🎶 Knock Down Walls…
Hey yall 🤠 hope all is well…
We’re still digging into Tonic — and there is so much gold left to be found..
You know how it is… you’ve got to get to know someone before you marry them — believe you me 💯
So I’ve got two more sweet ones for you today…
🎶 “Take Me As I Am”
Year released: 2o02
Album.. Head on Straight (Tonic’s third studio album)
Album release date.. September 24.. 2o02
🎶 “Knock Down Walls”
Year released.. 1999
Album.. Sugar (Tonic’s second studio album)
Album release date.. November 9.. 1999
And just a cool little fact about me…
Pretty much every song I’ve ever shared with yall on this blog —
I also play and sing myself…
me and my guitar 🎸
Hope you enjoy… I truly appreciate you…
This song has the F word in it.. just once.. at the 1:37 mark.. it’s not bad.. it’s quick.. 👇
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🙏❤️…….. Knock Down Walls… lyric tower..
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© 2026 Bryan H. All rights reserved.
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Crowder feat. Taya 🎶 Crushing Snakes…
https://youtube.com/shorts/k9E3x2pDbTE?si=rOnSLXQ8fPzO8o9Q 👈
Christ Still Crushes… 😎✝️🥾🐍❤️🔥
This is a cool song… if you’ve never heard it… check it out… click on thumbnail inside short for full song…
“I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy…”
— Luke 10:19© 2026 bryanforchrist. All rights reserved.
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Chris August 🎶 Starry Night…
https://youtube.com/shorts/tpBk-ZiTud8?si=whIyXHlNdxU7BPFB 👈
Come check out my YouTube channel… if you like… subscribe… (click on thumbnail inside short for full song)
I’m giving my life to the only One
Who makes the moon reflect the sun
Every starry night
That was His designI’m giving my life to the only Son
Who was and is and yet to come
Let the praises ring
‘Cause He is everything
‘Cause He is everythingFrom the painted sky
To my plank filled eye
He’s God of all
He is everything… whoa-ohI’m giving it all to the only Son
Who gave me hope when I had none
So let the praises ring
Oh… let the Praise ring… cause He is everything… …tRomans 12:9 NLT… Don’t just pretend to love others… really love them… 💙…
© 2026 Bryan H. All Rights Reserved.
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Tonic 🎶 You Wanted More 🎶 Waltz With Me…
Hey yall… today the spotlight lands on Tonic…
They’re excellent if you ask me.. I was so impacted by their music back in the mid-90s… and they’ve stayed one of my favorites through the years.. I still perform their songs to this day… because they live deep in me. They formed in 1993 in Los Angeles.. with Emerson Hart leading the way on vocals… and they’ve always had a way of mixing honesty.. heart.. and melody in a way that just hits life right where it lives…
I’ve got two songs for you today…
🎵 You Wanted More — 1999 — from the album Sugar… (also it was featured on the soundtrack from the movie “American Pie…”)
🎵 Waltz With Me — also from Sugar 1999… a beautiful track…
Hope you enjoy… press play and let the songs do what they do…
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Tell me something… Will we be broken down…¿
Do you have a favorite place you have visited? Where is it?
I have many favorite places throughout my travels and missionary work in the Philippines.. Singapore.. Argentina.. I also drove 18-wheelers all across the USA for 17 years.. I’ve been to all states.. numerous times.. with the exception of Alaska.. Hawaii.. Vermont.. also got to explore some.. and I’ve lived in different states.. but with this prompt.. I’m reminded of the Hard Rock Cafe in Buenos Aires.. Argentina.. neon glowing through a foreign night.. music bleeding into the airport.. like a familiar language in a strange land.. I remember sitting there with the weight of miles in my bones and gratitude in my chest.. realizing that somehow.. in a city thousands of miles from home.. God had stitched another memory into my soul.. Another reminder that the world is wide.. but His presence is wider still…
© Bryan H. 2025 — All Rights Reserved
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