Hi CSN Family,
i am very busy but not busy enough. I can't seem to do enough to help
these young people come to know the Lord.
i have written alot of songs and my most recent ones are for troubled minds and hearts
of children and adults.
i hope very soon I can get these songs put to music.
i know the messages in them are directly from our Loving God the Father.
i couldn't even write a simple poem until 6 years ago. These are special gifts
that I know i don't deserve but God gave them to me anyway.
Please pray for me as I do all of you daily.
i need the strength of your wonderful prayers to get me through each day and
to be able to write and get music put to as many songs as possible to help
these troubled young and not so young souls.

I will let you know when the music is put to at least one and hopefully more.
i hope to get this done within the next few weeks if God wills it So!

Blessings and Gods Great Peace to Everyone,
Keep on Praying Prayers...

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Just got a grant for the goverment (Pell Grant) to pay for my college.
The best part is that i dont have to pay it back !
Good thing for the interenet and for the sites offering informations on how

to write an essay and grants informations..
here are some links i found useful

Government Grants
College Grants
College Scholarships

I write music that is specific for medically challenged or special needs children and their families. My daughter Melissa was born in 1994 with congenital heart defects and spina bifida. My husband and I were heartbroken, Music was used all the time to defray the loud noises of the ventilator and IV pumps used to keep her alive. We found very little songs that were uplifting and spoke directly to us. She passed away in Sept. 2008 after 18 surgeries. I write songs to work through my grief and help others that have children in these same situations. The Lord is their only hope! Two songs have been recorded at Daywind Sound Studios on the Spirit Sent CD "Healing Hearts Changing Lives". These were Melissa's Song and On God's Watch. The CD was recorded in tribute to Melissa and her fight to survive. http://www.spiritsentmusic.com

The recording is owned by When Are We Going Home Ministry ...

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I have not had too much time to visit here much lately, no time to critique, and i would not want to post my stuff without having the time to crit back. I appreciate the efforts of all on CSN, the helping hands, ears and eyes to help each other go forward in our ministries. I usually get told to re write, re mix, re this and re that, lol. i can get discouraged, but i know this is a skill beyond me, and i never claimed i knew how to do this anyway..........

I was reading the passage before the well known You are the potter I am the clay verses. well, some vessels are for ordinary things, never meant to be used for grand events. and i realize, yea, i am an everyday vessel, doing regular everyday things. like a pair of old favorite jeans, rather than the gold sparkle dress. kind of nice, used everyday in an ordinary way.

so, for all of you reading this who get discouraged because our songs are not "winning" contests or prizes, just realize they may be "winning " souls,...

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While washing up the breakfast dishes this morning I heard a Christmas song by one of my favorite singers, Randy Travis. The words gripped my heart. As the tears began to flow, I thought about the circumstances of how she birthed The Lord Jesus. Natural childbirth with no epidural drip for the pain -- in a dirty 'barn' surrounded by the animals. She had no comfort zone, no soft bed, no midwife to help her....Oh! but God was there during this labor of love!

I wish I would've written this song. Here is the lyric. Be so blessed!!

Andrew Peterson

It was not a silent night, there was blood on the ground
You could hear a woman cry in the alleyway that night on the streets of David's town
And the stable was not clean and the cobblestones were cold
And little Mary full of grace with tears upon her face had no mother's hand to hold

It was a labor of pain, it was a cold sky above
But for the girl on the ground in the dark with every beat of her beautiful heart...

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