🎼Prompt Response: Wrote Songs with AI Help🎵
What’s something you’ve done that you never thought you could?
By Day One
A New Song with an Old Message
Back on April 4th and 5th, I shared two posts that meant a lot to me. The first was called A Passover Prisoner Exchange where I didn’t tell you the name of the prisoner. And I really loved the image from that post because it spoke so much with no words. The next was called Resurrection Redemption Revealed where I told you the prisoner was Barabbas and shared that he was literally the first person in history to witness YahShua (Jesus) dying for his sins.
I love the story because he was likely a rabbi’s son, but I never thought of writing a poem or song about it. But recently, I got a musical AI creator that allows Christian lyrics.
Side Note…
Yes, I was able to put some of my Christian lyrics to music with Lyria by Gemini, but lately it makes me change things like “Lord” to “Love” or “Truth” or anything that won’t strike a caution in the program. Oddly, it didn’t do that at first, as you know from my post with the song Holy, Pure, and Undefiled. So I guess someone out there must have complained, and Google didn’t want the risk of a lawsuit. Still, it’s not like Christian writers are asking them to opine on Christian beliefs or to support or promote them in any way. In my case, I was just asking for a tune to go with lyrics I already created and believed myself.
Back on Track…
So anyway, I decided to try a new app called Donna AI Song & Music Maker from the Google Play Store. The first thing it offered was that it could write a song from just a picture. I thought, “Hmm, I wonder what it would make from that cool Barabbas picture. So I uploaded that and added a description (prompt) for the AI. It used most of the words in my prompt as lyrics plus added some of its own, and that made me decide to take what I’d written into the prompt and expand the idea into a full set of my own lyrics. Before I share my lyrics, though, here are the first ones written by Donna AI…
[Verse 1]
Looking at myself and deep into the shame,
I can’t explain the mercy, I can’t explain His name,
I was counting every failure like a sentence carved in stone,
Then You stepped into my darkness and You made my burden known,
And the chains that held me shattered when You called me as Your own.[Bridge]
I should have been the one nailed there, I should have paid the cost.
[Chorus]
You took my place, You took my pain, You broke the power of my sin,
You set me free from all my chains and gave me life again within,
I was lost, but now I’m standing where grace and hope begin,
My Savior bled, my soul was spared, and I will sing that love has won.[Verse 2]
It was me that should’ve hung on that cross, bearing all my blame,
I was the guilty one in silence, yet You carried all my shame,
When the crowd was shouting justice, You did not defend Yourself,
My life was traded for Your mercy, and I found forever wealth.[Bridge]
Jesus stayed silent, and my freedom rose instead.
[Chorus]
You took my place, You took my pain, You broke the power of my sin,
You set me free from all my chains and gave me life again within,
I was lost, but now I’m standing where grace and hope begin,
My Savior bled, my soul was spared, and I will sing that love has won.[Outro]
So I’ll walk in grateful wonder, forever changed by grace,
The cross reminds me I am free because You took my place.
I like most of what they added to my prompt, like the part about standing where grace and hope begin. You’ll hear some of the same lyrics in my final creation called “My Soul Exchanged” and sung in a soulful gospel style (yes, they offered this choice 😊). I created a video and used Adobe Express to add lyrics to it (though it missed some in areas where the AI singer was extra stylistic) then I uploaded it to YouTube. It’s shared below, and I’d love to hear some thoughts on it. I’ll also add the full lyrics after the video.
When the crowd shouted, “Give us Barabbas” and YahShua (Jesus) stayed silent, He made Barabbas the first witness to experience having his sins paid for with innocent blood.
I love the message in this, and the image Gemini’s Nano Banana made for the cover speaks volumes, so now I’ve uploaded my lyrics to Donna AI Song & Music Maker, and I really like the result.
Full Lyrics
“My Soul Exchanged” lyrics by Crystal A Murray ©2026 All Rights Reserved
Looking at myself and into me,
I don’t know why He chose to set me free.
Casting off the broken chains that bound me,
because He took my place on that tree.
My soul exchanged…
for a Righteous Son.
Exchanged…
for the holy one.
Arranged to swap…
This rabbi’s son.
An innocent reclaimed…
my soul with His blood.
It was me that should’ve hung on the cross.
I was the criminal; I should pay the cost.
But Jesus stayed silent when they shouted my name,
To release me instead of Him.
My soul exchanged…
for a Righteous Son.
Exchanged…
for the holy one.
Arranged to swap…
This rabbi’s son.
An innocent reclaimed…
my soul with His blood.
I didn’t ask Him,
but He offered anyway.
And I watched Jesus hang there…
for my sins that day.
My soul exchanged…
for a Righteous Son.
Exchanged…
for the holy one.
Arranged to swap…
This rabbi’s son.
An innocent reclaimed…
my soul with His blood.
[Tag]
An innocent reclaimed my soul…
with His holy blood.
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A Little Bit of Snow
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Brr 🥶! Super cold temperatures are absolutely not my favorite thing. Ice storms, snow storms, and dips below freezing (32°f) make me want to stay hidden in a warm house under cozy blankets.
My husband made the statement that “it’s not that bad” and that started a whole conversation. Why does it seem worse to me than it does to him? Simple, I was not raised with cold or snow. If my sister and I saw a little ice in a puddle, we would slide a shoe over it like our one foot was ice skating. If we found a little bit of snow, we got really excited and wanted to touch it or crunch through it the way little boys love to splash in rain puddles. But both were rare in Southern California.
My first experience with strong cold and lots of snow was when my photography company sent me to Wisconsin in the middle of an arctic cold front. The temperature was 35° below zero, and it dropped to 84° below zero with the wind chill. I was warned not to breathe the air in without a scarf over my mouth, and my co-worker had to have her car towed to a garage to warm it up just to get started. That would be harsh for anyone, but those who live in that kind of cold regularly are prepared. Some even have plugs on their cars to connect to available power sources to heat their oil. It’s not that bad where I live now in Kentuckiana, but it’s still hard on my Western-raised body, even after 35 years here.
Do you have any life changes that have been harder for you to deal with because of a lack of familiarity? For example, if you were raised in a dysfunctional family, maybe going to someone else’s family gathering is somewhat uncomfortable. Or, maybe like me, you are childless, and hearing women talk about having babies or raising children feels awkward because you cannot relate to any of it. On the other hand, I imagine women who have traditional families, pregnancies, births, etc., and then read Scriptures about the curses that often made women in the Bible barren, may feel awkward with me. They must wonder if there’s a curse involved because I wondered that for a long time myself.
See, experience breeds familiarity, and familiarity breeds confidence. My husband is far more confident about driving in the snow than I will ever be. But driving in snow, no matter how much fear it creates in me, is a little thing compared to the blinding Light of Christ to an unbeliever who was never raised around godliness or biblical Scripture. 1 Peter 2:9 speaks of God “calling us out of darkness into His marvelous light.” If you’ve ever come out of a dark room into bright light, you know what this is describing.
When we minister to those who are not familiar with the Gospel, we need to think of the way unfamiliar things make us feel. We need to remember that light can be blinding to those who have been in the dark for a long time. And we need to teach with such compassion and understanding that we are not surprised when a person we’re trying to teach feels overwhelmed by what we are used to in our walks with The Lord. If they reject the message for a time, it doesn’t mean you or I are bad teachers. Even Jesus did not convince every person He reached out to. Sometimes, someone is just set in their own ways and refuses to consider a new way. Other times, it may just take some time for their spiritual eyes to adjust to The Light. That’s when we let them play in just a little bit of snow for a bit until they’re ready for the deep stuff. ❄️
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