Hi all!
I know I have not been here much lately but it is because I have been so busy and I want to tell you my news!
I am thrilled to share with my friends here at CSN that all the hard work here on CSN of learning to tweak and rewrite and hone the gifts we are given by Our Lord God Father Son & Spirit has been a blessing.
I am thrilled to tell you that I have composed the theme song for the
2010 Combined Federal Campaign for the UNITED WAY of Tampa Bay.
It is called "Now More Than Ever".
The song has been professionally recorded and a video is being made with it. It will be used for fund-raising for federal employees in the Tampa Bay area as the campaign starts for the United Way. There is also a possibility that it will be used by other CFC agencies and used in additional areas outside of Tampa Bay Fl. I was involved with the taping of a few scenes of the...

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It has been WAY too long since I have been here. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE CSN! Why? Because of the great people/friends I have met here and because of it's ministry. It is such a wonderful website.

I have been consumed with kids, and life and my own little mind games that have been going on in my head about basically who I was as a songwriter and coming to terms with that, but mostly who I was in God's eyes. This summer has been an awakening time for me. I have come out of it with more peace, more direction, more communication with God on a daily basis and more time with my wonderful family.

As far as songwriting goes, I haven't written a whole lot new. One arrangement with my husband to Christ The Lord Is Risen Today, one song out of a prayertime for our church, and one to break me out of my box and do something totally new and my hidden passion. Hopefully I will get enough courage to share it with you. lol.

God convicted me that I needed to have my relationship with Him number...

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Hi CSN Friends,
i worked on two songs with Angela Dittmar and also
i did a four person collab with three other good friends.
Please feel free to play the songs and give me impute
as to what other instruments would help these songs
even more!
I will soon be doing The Broken Ones and get it posted
as well.
i hope you have enjoyed the songs God has given me so far.
Also i could use daily prayers as i will be babysitting fulltime
this fall and winter my grandbabies and try to get some songs
done in my spare time.
Thank you for all your support!
I pray for you All! Be assured of That!
Many things can change with family and so I really need some prayers
in order to have the energy to take care of Everyones needs including
what God wants done.
Gods Great Peace,
Heleana Maria
I'm On Soundclick and ReverbNation and Facebook. i am also on Myspace!
i go by heleanamaria when i post and Ellen Rost on Facebook,
if you want to listen there and view my paintings as well.
I plan to get...

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Years ago, when i was gigging in an R & R band, i use to wear outrageous clothes and earrings. well, i was young and skinny and stupi..... oh no not really........ i thought i KNEW what i was doing..........anyway, the crowd that followed the band- started dressing like me. and I remember being upset, thinking I had to find something different to do, when one of the guys said to me, "you know, imitation is the highest form of flattery"........

when we IMITATE Christ, we honor HIM, we are telling Him "we want to be like YOU!!!!!"

Now, as songwriters for the Kingdom, as we write songs to praise HIM and HIM alone, it is so easy to fall into the trap... the TRAP of thinking ........ ooohhhhh, they're playing MY song. wow, that is a DANGEROUS place to be. when our song is played, it is so humbling, it's amazing isn't it.......to think any of us could be used to write a song that GOD will hear. and then when others sing it, (sometimes maybe off key, or maybe out of...

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I see my lyrics as contemporary christian crossover - I imagine people singing the psalms/ scriptures without even knowing it!! I have a lot of songs that come right from scripture but sound contemporary, I think kids today are singing lyrics that are so innapropriate and they dont even know what they are saying