Chapdelaine House

Well, it's been awhile, but I wanted to post a video of a song I've recorded.  The chord chart is found here: http://therecyclebin.blogspot.com/2012/03/you-are-my-rock-you-are-my-refuge.html And now video, with less-than-stellar audio (doing my best...) is found here: "You Are My Rock" Demo-Cover To help me along the journey to better audio, feel free to click the "Donate" button and I'll be getting a interface and microphone for recording more! Stay tuned for "Fragrant Burning" by Derek Loux and some other song videos via my YouTube Channel. David

Blogroll today revealed a post "Advice for Worship Leaders #1".  I'm assuming that there will be more in this series... Justin Rizzo is a songwriter/worship leader - his thoughts brought conviction to my own avoidance of songwriting; and gives me hope - even if i'm uninspired, prayer is the avenue to begin with.  It's important to sit down to write, "God has songs reserved just for you," Justin says. Full post: (c) 2011 Justin Rizzo - http://justinrizzo.com/blog/08/2011/advice-worship-leaders-1-dedicated-writing-time#comment-246

tran·scribe     (tr n-skr b ) tr.v.   tran·scribed ,  tran·scrib·ing ,  tran·scribes 1.  To make a full written or typewritten copy of (dictated material, for example). I've transcribed a few worship songs, and shared them here.  I cannot tell you how much transcribing has improved my musical skills.  If you play instruments, or casually know a few guitar chords and want to grow your skill from your bedroom, begin to transcribe a song that you really connect with.  Here's a little of my story with transcribing. It started when I began playing music, and playing worship songs.  My dad brought a 28.8kbs modem home from work in the early 90's, and I began to find new, fresh tunes for worship leading via the internet (I was 12-13 at that point).  It was a lesson in patience as the chord sheets and tabs wipe-loaded down the computer screen. Problem was, I noticed that some of the chord sheets that musicians were loading on ran...

Whew. What a month. Many things have happened in this past month. Let me see... 1) Our little Ember left our family to join her bio-grandparents on the 7th of this month. We were able to prepare our hearts and her belongings before she left, including written letters for later in her life. For a couple days after, Sarah and I were sad. God answered our prayers, however: we prayed for His will to be done, and wanted to align our hearts no matter what the decision may be. After three days of random crying and emotional ups and downs, we were fine and excited to remember her. We pray for her a lot and I believe God has a great purpose for her life...her story is already so beautiful. (Ember's last night with us. She wouldn't sleep unless she was on my shoulder that evening. Odd, or God?) 2) [the day after...] We received a call from a foster mom the next day asking us about respite care (foster-care babysitting). We didn't know, but the foster care workers were alrea...