and then there was silence. conversation is one of my favorite things - with coffee of course, and maybe some lemon pound cake - but a few months ago one of my favorite conversations came to a dead stop. there was just nothing left to say. this was a 12 year conversation that had always …
Let it Grow Stronger
Making heart connections (with God and people) and music is what my life has always been about regardless of wether or not i could have verbalized it that way. So, needless to say, my songs have mainly focused on love and relationship and desire - it's what makes me come alive. so here's one such song - …
Go sing your song
I am a song. I also sing songs. There is a difference between just singing and releasing the song you are onto the earth. We have gotten very good at mimicking sounds we think are pretty so we will sound pretty. But i have wonderful news. There is more. I told The Lord several years …
friendship faux pas 101
friendships are hard. like ok, duh. please, ms. blogger, tell me something i don't already know. what i didn't know is that i had ideas about friendships that were more akin to unicorns walking the earth than anything resembling reality.for instance, i didn't know just how important proximity is to friendship. i happen to live …
coffee and repentance
Coffee with friends and repentance seem to go hand in hand for me. of course if you think of repentance as groveling at the burning altar of judgement with weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, then that is certainly not what i am talking about. repentance means to change your mind and turn around. Paul, …
journal songs
knowing i'm going in the studio to record soon mostly makes me nervous as hell. i've been singing all my life - Mama said i was singing before i started talking, which doesn't really mean much i guess, except that i love to do it. I had laryngitis once in high school and it wasn't …
monsters and waves
we get ourselves into trouble. everything gets clouded and starts to swirl. the waves on the ocean that looked like they would have made great surfing, suddenly are monsters trying to devour us with one gulp. when our hearts begin to rage and cry out we start grasping like a drowning man for whatever is …
thoughts on the sovereignty and safety of God
https://soundcloud.com/guitarsallie/you-made-me i recorded this in my little office on my mac... some time ago. over the years i have had struggled so much with the fear of being out of control of things that happen in my life - feeling like other people had the ability to shut down the calling on my life …
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the heart matter
we all know the scripture "without faith it's impossible to please God"... it always seemed like such a looming thing. a you-better-have-faith-or-else kind of thing. but i propose it is just a statement of fact. it's just the nature of things. what the Father really cares about is our hearts. above all else - above …
a new day
the things we long and hope for can seem less realistic than a trip to the moon. i know that sometimes the things i have dreamed do. so what happens when the page turns and there's a clean, fresh space just waiting for you to write your life on it? will you be so braced …
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