Random Thought

Recently, I have been wondering how to spark interest in my blog site. Should I post short blogs just about my day, or should I endeavor to post really serious thoughts and only update every so often? I think a little of both is a good idea. It is also hard to resist the temptation to do some serious venting on here. It's funny how open and how easy it is to write about my true feelings on here. This actually seems to be a trend when I sit down to write in general. A good friend of mine recently commented that my writing has a lot of emotion, passion, and good word use. Being a writer has never been a pursuit, however, after hearing from many different people since, I may try to write a few more songs. Instrumentals have always been my focus with the exception of a few full on pop songs I have written throughout the years. Lately, the bug to take lyric writing more seriously has really been growing to the size of a Louisiana mosquito. For all of you who know what I mean then you realize it is the size of a small condor.  lol  Perhaps I will even post some song lyric ideas on here to get some feedback from anyone who wishes to. I am such a believer in community effort and seeking constructive criticism. It is so important to our growth. Yet, maintaing the confidence and wisdom to know which advice to take and which to not is also quite important. I will say it again though, the more I learn the realization that I know so little becomes more apparent.

New topic.

It has been very difficult to remain positive about my solo career. Between spending every little bit of money I have trying to put together promotional material, never having enough money, spending countless hours keeping up with internet work, photo editing, video editing, and trying to create a buzz around something that is not actually moving forward very fast is so hard to do. Not to mention the fact that I feel completely alone in it most of the time. The company of wonderful people with whom I am kind of signed has been unable to do much this past year. In fact, I have never even signed a contract. How weird is that? The booking agent I am trying to work with claims they are interested, but is very slow in returning communication. Now, let me pause here since I have that trouble sometimes as well, and there are some good friends of mine who are greatly laughing at me right now. But, when it comes to business it is imperative to communicate. I have also been trying to put together a Twin cities CD release show together for a year. Living Word has been horrible about helping. Although everyone is interested and verbally supportive, someone who is not even a member of the church has managed to have a show there in the span of time that I have been asking to do one. In fact, they even paid for some of it. It is so frustrating. Anyway, I am very sure that this is what I am supposed to be doing and refuse to stop.

Every time I feel discouraged, God reminds of this beautiful testimony. A few months ago I posted two songs on Jango Internet radio. This wonderful woman living in Chicago emailed me and said her son heard one of the songs and really felt the peace and presence of God in the music. It turns out he has a specific type of cancer throughout his entire body. His mother who contacted me revealed that she used to live here in Minnesota but moved down to take care of him. well, they requested a copy of the cd in order to have it playing in the sons treatment room while he underwent his treatment. I immediately sent them a free copy overnight. He was having treatment on his brain stem and spinal chord where the doctors had recently found cancer. Well, the day of his treatment came and went. I received an email two days later from the mother. She revealed that her son had the cd playing in his room right when the got settled in. The doctors did another scan in preparation and found that there was no cancer in either his brain stem or spinal chord anymore. Before treatment. PRAISE GOD!!!  If that were not cool enough, she emailed me a few weeks ago and said that her son who had been near death, a body full of cancer, was now completely healed with no sign of the disease. PRAISE GOD!!  She said the anointing power on the cd broke the yoke of his disease. God's word is true you guys. He does move and heal and love. I am so blessed and thankful that He chose to use the music we created to fulfill His purpose. thank you Jesus. thank you.

Ok, I should probably get back to work now. Doing a lot of programming for next week. Peace and joy to you all.


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