This song describes how my husband and I first noticed each other. I was out washing my car in my driveway on a sunny day. This handsome guy pulled up to the house next door, to visit his sister. Just one unsuspecting glance and here we are!
Thinking about how God might feel as He looks down on His creation, having given us freedom to live our lives as we please, hoping that we will use our lives to glorify Him and to realize His love for us.
While providing music for a gathering of senior citizens at a local grange, I thought about how nice it was to see the elderly out dancing and having fun. That night after falling asleep I was awakened by three musical notes playing in my head and the song Six Steps was created within minutes.
We start out in love but do we love intentionally and with commitment as the years go by? I wrote this song about the tragedy of love gone wrong.
After reading the story of the Good Samaritan in the Bible, rhyming words and a melody came to me so I simply titled it The Good Samaritan.
My mother though rather shy, was a true evangelist in that she wanted everyone to know Jesus as their Savior. After she passed away, I recorded this song while feeling her passion for the lost.
This poem tells a story of experiences with my dad combined with special family times with my children and their dad.
A special little boy that I had known only for a brief time, suddenly passed away from a health condition. My heart was broken for the sorrow his parents were experiencing, so I expressed my sympathy through song.
My mother liked buying purses and shoes. I was with her when she spotted a particular red purse that she just had to have. After she left for heaven, I expressed what my moms life represented to me inside that little red purse.
Through the ups and downs of life, I have found that God draws very near to us when we're in the valleys
Through a difficult time in my life, I felt the nearness of God reminding me that as I was grieving, He had suffered too while here on this earth and could identify with what I was going through. I found comfort in knowing that as I was remembering Him, He was remembering me.
Ones we love come and go, and here we are, left to go through life without them. So many emotions and adjustments as we try to comprehend their absence.
A praise song inspired by Psalms 139
Thinking about how life is but a vapor compared to eternity and how one day we will awaken to a new world, so came this song, Time Marches On.
A friend felt impressed to pray for me one morning and to also share a special verse with me. She had no idea how much I needed to claim that verse at that time. I see those times as a God-incident.
While out driving with my dad, he remarked about the hurried, push and shove traffic. He said "Why is everyone in such a hurry? "Don't they know when they're old they may wonder what the big hurry was all about?" Thus years later I wrote Round and Around thinking about life as a fast ride.
When I was a young child I enjoyed listening to my Grandmother's LP records on her old fashioned phonograph. One of the songs I especially liked was titled Under My Red Umbrella. Later in life, thinking of those fond memories, I wrote my own umbrella song.
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