Thank You So Much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are back home after a wonderful week co-writing in Nashville, though we took a little side trip. I missed a turn in Missouri and we were 30 minutes on our way to St Louis before Jodie woke up and saw the mileage sign. I guess I need a bumper sticker that says, "I'm lost...I'm writing a song in my head."
Wow, what a week! I actually feel like I have more energy than I did at the beginning of the week. The process was so invigoration... but I also know I had a ton of people praying for me. Thank you, everybody for doing that
I LOVE CO-WRITING!!!! I couldn't help but write being around such incredibly gifted people. It's like when Gary (my bass player) and I get together and play. I play things I would never have come up with on my own. I learned a ton this week. I knew I would. Just soaking in and analyzing the whole process was cool. The Lord really hit me this morning with a wave of gratitude.
On Thursday, Twila Labar and I picked a target and worked up chorus with an AC feel and got the verses mapped. It was based on an idea I had been rolling around for a few years that started with a comment from my dad. That morning I heard a TV preacher preach on the same thing and that gave me some more ideas to bring. We spent the first part of the write just listing a ton of lines and then we got into constructing a melody line and piecing the song together. That was a fast write but we could have used more time together to finish. We are going to do that over e-mail. Twila is also a worship leader as well, so it was great to share with her about that.
Thursday afternoon with Jamie Harvill (“Ancient of Days“) was priceless. We got to share a lot of stories about life and ministry. He really went for the up-tempo worship chorus idea I brought. He came up with this cool verse rythmn that contrasted the chorus and the first time time we improvised a melody for the verses we knew exactly were we were going and we sang it together. That was a great moment! We had most of it done till we ran out of steam. Then we just talked about God and Life. I e-mailed the final verse lyric before we left the hotel yesterday. We are pumped about the song.
Thanks to so many who told me you were praying for me. Man, did I feel the prayers!
Thank you to all the great writers I wrote with this week and especially, thanks to Sue, who set up all the contacts for me and has cheered me on since the day we met.
And the highest thanks to the Lord for a single chance to do anything for Him. He is gracious above all things.
p.s. You can read more about my trip in the previous blog below or by visiting Sue's Blog at http://www.writeaboutjesus.com/suesblog.html
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