Christian Songwriter's Network

Being a pastor's kid and now a pastor's wife I have come to realize my life is not my own. It is lead by the Lord's work. It has come to be time for us to leave our home, our church, our city for a new place. We have loved our time here in Salem and at our church Court Street Christian. I will always feel a deep connection here with the people we have met. It will be very difficult saying goodbye. Brian and I feel we have been called to go to Pleasanton, CA to be worship pastors for Centerpointe Pres. Church. It has been a long journey taking almost a year, but we believe full heartedly that this is what God wants us to do. Our last Sunday will be this coming Sunday. It will be a celebration of the years we have spent together, but also a sad goodbye to everyone we've loved. In some ways I am looking forward to the celebration of being all together, but at the same time I know I am going to be full of tears. We will move Feb 9th and start at Centerpointe Feb 15th. I think I am still in...

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According to the X-rays, God may just have intervened -- because the dentist's 'burr' as she called it (a tool maybe 3/32" wide and a little over 1/2" long or so) didn't show up on the films. I was having a tooth filled today, and the burr came out of the driver WHILE she was using it...I felt something unusual bounce around in my mouth, but lying back as I was with my mouth wide open I can't say for sure whether or not it went down my windpipe/my esophagus/or was sucked up by the assistant's suction tube. At the time the dentist said it must've been sucked up, or I would've felt it, so I said OK. Anyway, I paid, came home, and was going to forget about it -- but then I got a call from the dentist's office: they had torn the room apart and couldn't find the tool (I'm sure they looked in the reservoir for the vacuum, the most obvious place). They...

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It's a cold winter day out today.
It snowed a few inches last night but at least I didn't have to shovel it.
I have a problem lately. I had water dripping on the side of my house, which sort of ruined my siding in one spot. I have asbestos shingles. Well my house ended up getting a hole in it which my hubby has yet to fix, and when I came home , pulling up to my drive way was this BIG squirrel. It climbed into the whole of my house. Now when I am in the bathroom or the kitchen I can hear it running around in the ceiling of the kitchen or in the lower part of the bathroom walls. My son called me and said he thought it was a sick cat stuck in the ceiling, so he broke a whole in the ceiling of my kitchen to try and get it out. (I wanted to kill him) When I came into the house I seen this hole before he told me what he did, I thought a squirrel broke through. Needless to say I was freaking out! Thank goodness I fixed the whole in the house now I have to make sure that squirrel is...

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i don't know anything about pearls
like when you find one in an oyster is it all clean and sparkling?
probably not.

and that's what i have been doing
polishing the pearl.

suggestions made by others to make it a bit more singable, for "others"

well, good!
then i can sing it too!
just a few notes, play a bit with it

as soon as i can, i will share it

I saw a friend I haven't seen for awhile the other night. A friend who is an accomplished songwriter and songproducer. I had asked him once or twice before if I could just sit with him for awhile and learn a small fraction of what he knows, but it never seemed to work out because we are so busy (he works for the church in music ministry). I thought I was over my obsessive desire for a mentor, but I was wrong. We chatted for awhile, and asked each other about songs we are working on, etc. And I asked again if perhaps I could visit his office sometime to have him help me with some things. He said sure, but we probably both know I didn't really mean it, because I don't really have the time. But there is that small part of me that jumps at every temptation to take shortcuts and have someone else do the hard work for me. And things might be working out in the next couple months where I could make some time. So now I am confused ...

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