Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing is one of my favorite hymns! I’m excited to share this arrangement. I’m also excited to share some rather random thoughts that I’ve pondered as I’ve worked to prepare the recording. I’ve been thinking about echoes and about prayer. Robert Robinson’s “melodious sonnet” feels like a beautiful echo of […]
I can tell you right where I was when the words formed themselves into a sentence: “I don’t know how to heal!” I was outside where my little ones couldn’t hear me cry, under a blue sky, next to twin patches of daisies and quaking aspen in my front yard. It was several months after my […]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is rightly called a child prodigy and musical genius. At seven years of age, his compositions and his piano and violin performances had already made him a legend. How? How did it happen? Like all of us, Mozart, was born designed for language. Music happens to be a language. There was nothing […]
It took me fifteen years to realize there were questions begging to be asked from the beautiful message I received that clear day in 2009. (The original thought was essentially this: we don’t have to know how to heal because we were made to heal, and we will heal if we keep contaminants from infecting […]