MUSIC

WOW! I have been so blessed with WONDERFUL people in my life who are encouraging me! THANK YOU (you know who you are) for your words, love, support, and encouragement! SOME exciting news: now that my wonderful husband is on winter vacation him and his friend Chris got together and dove head first into recording with our software. They both and reading this from scratch and so they spent the day together, learning, hanging out, and playing music. They were able to get the drums, bass and guitar for one of our songs, and do you know what they picked? You guessed it, You Of Little Faith, a perfect reminder of what we are doing. Trusting in God that he will guide us and lead us to what He wants for our lives.

I have been working on a few new song ideas. One idea is an song surrounding why when we make bad decisions, how that makes us feel like we don't deserve to be loved by God so we don't want to get close to Him. How those decisions hold us back from getting closer to God. And we need to give them to Him and know he forgives us and loves us, just as our parents love us even when we mess us in life.

The other one, my husband LOVES rock, heavy music and wants so bad to write a song in the theme of the bands RED or FIREFLIGHT which I really like there music too, we have got three verses worked out but I am struggling with the chorus. So we are working on that one.

Life other then music:
I feel so blessed! I have wonderful friends, I have a great family and I have my BEST friend as my husband! I LOVE my life right now! I have been really busy with work, music, church, and friends, which keeps me on the move but it is a move I really enjoy. Winter break starts for me tomorrow and this gets to be the first Christmas my husband and I get to spend together as a married couple! We are having both of our families over for Christmas this year! I am super excited because what you all might not know about me it I am completely and utterly obsessed with table decorations, napkin holders, name tag cards, chargers ETC. I love it all and I love setting the table! Cooking is fun too but my real joy is setting the table hehe.

I will have to post some pictures of what the tables look like after I do them :) ... Thanks everyone

God Bless and have a wonderful Christmas :)

IT HAS BEEN A WHILE ...sorry

It has been a while, my apologizes. Life has truly gotten away from me, in a positive way. After Darren and I got married my school life was in full swing, I am teaching a fabulous class of fifth graders who brighten my day every morning, and I decided to start my masters, so I was taking classes for that as well. Like I said my life was in full swing. As the beginning of the year went quickly and soon Thanksgiving was right around the corner I began thinking where is the time going. Darren and I started talking a lot about life and our goals for what we want accomplish. We both knew the standards having children buying a house, living happily ever after, but what else. What was God calling us to do with our lives? After some time of talking, praying, and thinking we both came together, honestly a little afraid of what we thought God was asking us to do, we told each other that we heard God telling both of us that we are to purse our music and song writing. Some of you might think why is the scary. WELL let me tell you our fears, we unfortunately at times have not received the support that would help us grow from some people, which if you know me at all you know how sensitive I am and how hard it is for me do deal with peoples disapproval. So that was one BIG fear, another one was/is money! It costs a lot of money to produce your music (which is what we feel called to do) and we firmly believe that we will not go into debt or put of future family into a hard spot money wise, since it does say in the bible we should not. And third, IF we do make a CD and people enjoy it and we have the chance to make a profit off of it we WANT to make sure that the money is used for Gods purpose not ours, we want to give it back to Him. See most of the music we write has a definite message and that message is for the lost, beat down, bruised, confused, and looking, we write a message of hope, and to grab their attention and show them the truth JESUS at the end of the song. We feel our songs are written to save souls, since music is such a moving a powerful thing that reaches the inner core of people we want to us it to show TRUTH, HOPE, and LOVE to people in need. And those people may be non-Christians but they may be Christians too.

So where do we go from here, we have the vision, we have the desire, we need a plan. With our fears as a guide and prayer as our daily practice we entered into a plan to follow God's plan for our lives. We purchased (within our budget) a few materials we needed to start the recording process and we started. Or I should say Darren started he has been working slowing but steadily on the music portion of our songs and started with the PERFECT song, we wrote a song called You of Little Faith. I wrote the words and melody of this song while in my car arguing with God about how I am not good enough to record, and all I could hear over and over was You of Little Faith, so this is the perfect song to start with.

Our goals is to have a couple songs in place for my 25th birthday in April, in which we would love to have a concert inviting all of you to come and hear what God has been doing in our lives :)

Thanks

Until next time :)