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I have to admit I am a little surprised at where we have arrived. When we started down this path, it was without a lot of thought about where it might lead. It seemed like a good path though and we had the time to walk for a while. There were some turns in the path, so when we started we couldn’t see too far along. But start we did and as I said, I’m a little surprised and certainly pleased with where we have gone so far.
That paragraph could probably be applied to a lot of things, but for me it describes the little endeavor that Lisa and I call the Song of the Week. It was almost a year ago that I listened to one of her songs on the computer in my office and commented online that the song blessed me. Two people asked for a copy and I said sure. That was the first step on this path. Now, almost a year later, I am sending out one of her songs to over 200 people each week.
There are people on the list that Lisa and/or I have known for 40 years. (I am not counting my sister even though I have known her longer than that. I sort of think that counting her shouldn’t count. Nothing personal Pat.) There are people on the list that we have never met. The people on the distribution list represent a wide range of Christian groups and there are some that do not affiliate with anyone at all. The people who get these songs come from the complete range of the political spectrum. Not everyone on the list is from the USA. All in all it is pretty cool and we are really blessed to send these songs to each one of you.
For some, it has been surprising to see how many songs Lisa has written and recorded. (I know it kind of surprised us. We still find old songs that had been forgotten.) The Song of the Week has been a nice opportunity to get her songs into a format that people can listen to. The first two albums she did (“Last Night in Galilee” and “Love Never Fails”) were only released on cassette, which is a format that not too many people use anymore. Plus, there are a lot of songs that have never been recorded or released and it has been fun to get started on that.
We’ll be starting the Song of the Week Year 2 pretty soon. Going forward, some of the songs will be repeats from year one. Our supply of recorded songs is not unlimited of course and some people that have only recently started would like to get some of the ones that have already been sent. There will still be some new songs too. There are only 52 weeks in a year and Lisa has a lot more songs than that. We are still getting some of them recorded and I can’t wait until we can share those with you. If you find that you have all of the songs that you want and would like to leave the the distribution list, we won’t take it personally.
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