His Faithfulness

Hello Bloggers! I am blogging tonight to tell you about a wonderful thing that has happened in my song writing world. There is a song I started probably around three years ago, I started it at church one Sunday night, and it is taken out of psalm 37. I've had this chorus for a long time. The words are: "I will feed on his faithfulness, I will rest in his righteousness, I will feed on his faithfulness and truly I will be fed" I have tried and tried to write a verse to go with it, but seriously nothing ever fit...Until tonight! I was singing about thirsting for the Lord and seeing him (psalm 42, and 63) and it just flowed right into the chorus beautifully! I was so excited, so I got Vanessa and showed her, and she started playing this terrific tag that lead into the chorus. Now isn't that neat?

Remembering Colorado!

Ah the sweetness of Colorado is embedded into my heart....The drive isn't so sweet though. Gosh we got home Friday night and I had major jet lag...Or would that be car lag? I didn't know what to do. My goodness! Oh but baby Dawson is just adorable, He's got the sweetest smiles, and my goodness his dirty look that he gives me is....Well dirty, but sweet. (Dave taught him to squint his eyes and glare, but Dawson thinks it's funny so he glares and smiles at the same time.....Entirely cute!) And I'm very proud to say my nephew totally has my eyes...What a cutie... Here's proof we really were there.

F.B.I agent or a donut filler? Hmm....

The other day Vanessa, and I were sitting around our dining room table talking to our Mom about what we wanted to do when we would grow up.......We both had the same ideas. We wanted to have a TV show called "Jane blonde" and be Private Investigators or F.B.I agents that do very cool stuff. I would never be a real P.I or agent in real life though, for it possesses to much of a risk, but on TV...Now that would be the ideal situation! Although if we're being honest with each other I must tell you that I don't know if I could act in front of a camera..Makes me feel a bit silly. Anyway we're sitting there talking to our Mom about this stuff, and we all pause, probably to take a drink of coffee or a bite of donut (this is the same day we got those jelly donuts from Richards Bakery...Remember a few posts ago?) And suddenly Vanessa pipes up and says "You know what I want to do? I want to be the person that squirts the jelly into the middle of the donut" It was classic ! I was a bit baffled, for she went from wanting to be an F.B.I agent to wanting to be a jelly squirter...What a switch! Not a day goes by where someone doesn't say "your funny!" to Van and I. What a life we lead. Gee whiz..

Vacation week

Well I'm sitting here drinking tropicana orange juice, listening to multiple conversations flow around me about books, and people from kendallville (don't ask me how that one got started!) I had forgotten how funny my sister and brother in law are....My goodness! The Rockies are great and beautiful. We went to old Colorado town this afternoon, it's a place with small shops that resemble the ones in the old west, back in the 1800's. We bought some great souvenirs there...We are official tourists. We also went to the garden of the gods which was massive! The rocks are so beautiful. Everything here is willi nilli, this is the Vacation life!

Donuts and Josh Groban

I know donuts are fatty(and not the omega 3 fatty acid that is beneficial) but there is a time in life where you should have some...Just because they're good. On that note...There is this adorable little donut place called "Richards Bakery" (located off of Dupont) that has incredible and I do mean incredible raspberry jelly filled donuts (oh now doesn't that sound good?) It resembles a bakery that you would imagine to be located in a small town.. So cute. And when you stand in front of the donut counter trying to decide what kind to get, the people working there stand behind the counter, smiling, watching, and waiting for your decision. It actually reminds me of a book I once read called the "Celebrity" by Robert Elmer. It's about a famous guy singer (like Josh Groban) who gets tired of the rich and famous life. So he changes his name to Joe, moves to a small town, and gets a job making donuts at "Andys donut barn" Sounds promising doesn't it? Ah...What a life!

Just call them "The Water Songs"

Lately I have been in such a music mood! Vanessa and I got inspired when Ben's brother and his band "Rend the heavens" came into town and played his original songs(with great style!) It made me want to write more songs...It was fantastic! I haven't really started anything new yet though...Mostly Vanessa and I are finishing a lot of the songs that have been stuck on the "shelf." It actually feels really good to complete them...A great accomplishment. The funny thing is, we were thinking about all the songs we've written in the past year or two, and quite a lot of them have something to do with water! We hadn't really even realized it but there's

1. "Let everything be washed away"
2. "Who is thirsty"
3. "Waters pouring out"
4. "she's my beautiful bride and she is white, she is washed in the blood of Jesus Christ"
5. "Healing will flow like water poured out"

It makes me laugh! What is it with our fascination with water?! The David Crowder band, Delirious, and Rend the heavens are great inspirations for writing creatively. I haven't listen to The David Crowder band a lot, but with the few songs I've heard, they are immensely creative with their lyrics and music, and it challenges me to think outside the box. Same with Delirous...Rend the heavens....I love their piano.

Friday: Happy Days

So tell me about your day. Did you read a book? Watch any good detective shows? What about a walk in the park? I myself have had a spectacular day! I went to Sams Club which is always a pleasure...For who on this green earth could resist good ol' Sams? And then My Mama took us to the coffee shop and we all got an iced Americana- Which was very potent and very good! And I sat there in that cold coffee shop reading my exquitsite mystery novel...How delightful. No worries that's not all I did today. But that's all I'm going to post about for now. Good days are...Well.....Impeccable.

Try this at home!

For those of you who enjoy delicious healthy food- You have to try the broccoli slaw fruit salad. It is unbelievably good! All you need is

1. a bag of broccoli slaw
2. 2 oranges
3. 2 apples
4. 1 cup of walnuts or pecans
5. half a bottle of Kens steakhouse raspberry and pecan dressing

Mix it up and your done! Broccoli is one of the best vegetables you could eat. With vitamin's B3 B5, C , E, Calcium, Iron, Zinc and Sulforaphanes. For more healthy eating and information on all kinds of vegetables check out this book by Charlotte Haigh "The top 100 immunity boosters" It is fabulous!

Enjoy life, and pink steering wheel covers!

Well it's official! Vanessa and I have found our long beloved pink steering wheel cover. It's the cat's meow! To drive with it on, is simply a pleasure. It's bright pink with short hair...Kinda like a chihuahua (Our neighbor has one of those and it barks at me in my yard!) Anyway here's one like it.

Literature Hall

A quote I saw inscribed on the walls of the Florence Library:

"A book is never far from the scholars hand

just as a song is never far from a singers lips"

-UNKNOWN

The Traveling Bookclub

Hello there my fellow bloggers and friends! I hope that you have not entertained the thought that I've forsaken you entirely...For I have not. On the subject of books and Vacation: When the time comes around for the season of Vacation, along with it comes the season of books. I absolutely cannot go on a trip without an excruciatingly large amount of books! I am an official booknerd! I absolutely love books. Past trips when I would be at my Grandma's, my seven year old cousin Rizo would be there also, and he would see Vanessa and I reading on the couch, and with great nerdiness he would pinch his nose and say in the proverbial librarians' voice "the book club has now officially started." What a cool cousin. Our recent nine hour trip seemed like a breeze...Thanks to the 17 books we brought along. Late into the night Vanessa and I were at the back of the van, lights turned on beside us, pages turning until we finally reached home. This is what you call a true "Traveling bookclub."

Where can wisdom be found?

JOB 28:23-28 "God alone knows the way to Wisdom, he knows the exact place to find it. He knows where everything is on earth, he sees everything under heaven. After he commanded the winds to blow and measured out the waters, Arranged for the rain and set off explosions of thunder and lightning, He focused on Wisdom, made sure it was all set and tested and ready. Then he addressed the human race: "Here it is! Fear-of-the-Lord--that's Wisdom, and Insight means shunning evil.'"

Don't you just love Texas?

It is a beautiful day today! It looks a bit like Texas, although I have to say I have never been to Texas. But in my creative imagination this is what it looks like. I was about to go wash our car Jack but I don't think I will anymore. I'll just stay inside and have some iced tea (or as we southern say "ah-ced tay.")

Oh don't you just love Spring and Summer? Picnics, Cars, Permits! All of it is good good good!

Exceptional!

I drove Jack today and had a exceptional time. He is truly a marvelous car. For a first drive I think I did pretty well. I've been reading my driver manual day and night for the past day or two, and gee wiz it is embedded in my heart and mind forever!

Do any of you know how far to turn your signal on before turning? Or how many feet to stop before a railroad track if you're a chauffeur driver? What about driving on a road and seeing a "roadwork ahead" sign- Do you slow down and look for it, brake and be prepared to stop, drive the posted speed and look for the roadwork, or just look for the roadwork? Here goes the fun!

Stereotype? No thanks!

Normally you nice friends of mine don't think I am a stereotype blonde ditz -cause I'm not. But I have to admit-today I did the funniest thing that seemed to be a bit too ditzy. I was with my Mom and we were going into the license branch to get a drivers manual...(I've been reading the wrong one all this time...We didn't think about getting a new one.) And we walked into the foyer of the building, and were about to go into the main place where people wait for their results, ect... To come in. So I look in through the glass door and see all these people sitting in chairs facing one another looking serious and professional, and I turn to my Mom and say very sincerely "We can't go in there! They're having a meeting!" Oh me, oh my, oh my, oh me.

Cup of tea!

It's been a great week, but I don't know exactly what to write a post about. So how bout I just tell you about a new song Van and I have written. Well... a few months ago I wrote a chorus about -"Water's pouring out into the dry land...rain is falling down from heaven above" and about how there will be great joy where there was sadness-wonderful peace for those who had none....And it has been a little hard to find a verse to go with it...It's one of those where you have to think and experiment with. So the water song has been "soaking" Matt redman on a interview I once saw said something really neat about songs "brewing and soaking". In his neat british accent he told about "how a good English person (or me) who knows how to make a good cup of tea will let it "sit and brew a little while" and how sometimes we need to let our songs "sit and brew a little while" in our hearts and so forth. That what the water song has been doing that's for sure! The funny thing is Vanessa and I haven't even tried to-but we are in the cycle where one of us will write a verse and not have a chorus to it, and the other will have a chorus and not have a verse - and we'll put it together and say "Hey! I like that!" And that's what we've kind of done with the "Water song" she wrote a verse and its been "brewing" and I wrote a chorus and it's been "brewing" and we've mixed our "brewed tea" and I think it's nice! So we'll see what happens, but that is what is up in the world of songwritting and myself.

Jack the spiffy guy

The topic is Jack . Out of all my postings, this has to be the most important topic I am about to address. It is the best, the most significant, the most exellent, and the greatest.. It is the topic of Jack. Mine and Vanessa's NEW CAR! He's a honda! Accord. A true F.B.I-ish type of tranportation- Black, luxourious, and spiffy. Coming soon- to a neighborhood near you- Vanessa,Jack and I. Now I will cease and desist from my typing and let you enjoy spiffy Jack.

These are a few of my favorite things.....

My favorite TV show: Sue Thomas F.B.eye. You people out there who have not seen "Sue Thomas F.B.eye" are in for a treat! It is a phenomenal show about a deaf woman who works for the F.B.I by reading lips. They'll get criminals on tape, or She will work undercover and read what they are saying. What I love - is seeing the F.B.I swat team break into homes, warehouses, etc... yelling: "FREEZE F.B.I! PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEAD! KNEES TO THE GROUND!" It is terrific! The second thing I love is watching Jack (Sue's co-worker) and Sue together. They "like" each other, and are a very handsome couple, but the problem is- they barely communicate! O dear! Any time after working for days on a hard case, at the end of it all, the only thing they say is "Are you hungry?" After that, He'll walk her to her car, and say "Yeah...Well ...I should really be going.." And she'll reply "Yeah... Me too..." Last but not least, they all do these funny expressions! Like when they think about something, they'll twist their lips to one side of their face, or just stick them out. It's fantasticly(I don't know if that is even a word...) funny. All in all though, it is a great show. I love it! Yeah... Well I should really be going.....

Easter Weekend

Tomarrow is Easter and I am having a wonderful time celebrating it already! It seems like this whole week I have been busy thinking about something to do with Easter; whether to do with preperation for the Easter dinner, or maybe it's because I went to the Good Friday service at Church. So it seems like a longer weekend. The funny thing is after the Good Friday service, I would see people walking either out the door or out the parking lot, and would think "I should tell them goodbye- After all it is Easter weekend!" So out of the goodness of my heart I would yell "GOOD FRIDAY!" and I am sorry to say most people either ignored me (I don't think they knew I was talking to them) or give me this strange look and reply "Good Friday."

Ton's of great and I do mean great, things happened today. And one of them is this: I made a deep dark chocolate hersheys cake with german chocolate frosting! the best part about it: It's a BUNNY CAKE! And it is O so cute! I named him Henry (Don't think I am to weird, cause I know in your heart of heart's you name your bunny cakes too) and He's a wild bunny (His fur is very wild looking) He has green eyes that look kinda spacey (like a alien) and his teeth are nice and big and are kinda falling out (Vanessa says' they're like mine...) Happy Easter!

Friendship Topic Part II: Love

Well it happened! I spoke in Fusion last Wednesday on friendship and actually had a good time doing it. Late one night I was thinking about how Jonathan loved David as he loved himself, and how He honored and preffered his friend; And I was thinking for all of us it's our fleshly nature to put ourselves above others but I think the reason Jonathan was able to do this is because He was secure in who he was in God! He wasn't trying to get the glory and attention for himself, because he knew his security rested in God alone. Isn't that great? How neat- to prefer others above ourselves, and be gracious to them.

1 Corinthians 13:7-8 Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails.