Somehow I missed January...

I guess I'm still adapting to Florida's lack of seasonal cues...

For You...

Life Happenings...

I have been involved in two special projects this past month... first, a wedding in which I played my own arrangements of a variety of pieces including Christina Perri's A Thousand Years. (I hope to release it as a cover/single, soon.)

My album, Take My Hand, was featured at the reception.

The other was for a local school. My lovely Jamaican friend C has been teaching her kindergarteners the Bible songs of her childhood, a cappella. Having nothing but her own memory to preserve them she was thrilled when, after hearing her sing, I put them to paper. I then recorded them (on my iPhone!) and the music was used as accompaniment for her class's chapel presentation. The result of our collaboration was absolutely charming, and brought tears to her eyes. The plan now is to put C's songs on YouTube so that others may access them...

Below, a video with snippets of the wedding and chapel service:

The above plaque hangs in my studio and was proven true to me this week. Dear friend J is suffering the effects of a recent, significant stroke that has taken much from her. Words spoken elicit some response, but music... animates her like nothing else. When I visited her bedside, singing some of her favorite hymns, she did something remarkable: she sang along with me, every word...

I close with a verse we sang together:

Perfect submission, all is at rest.
I in my Savior am happy and bless’d,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

This is my story, this is my song;

Praising my Savior all the day long!

This is my story, this is my song;

Praising my Savior, all the day long!

Blessings,

Jennifer