Archive for March, 2008

Hi friends! Hows your week going?

Every now and then don’t you love it when someone encourages you. It gives you the power and passion to keep running the race. It might be a word from a friend or a stranger, but it touches your heart and lets you know you matter and need to keep fighting the good fight! The word literally means to "en-courage" to "give courage" – isn’t that cool?

I stumbled over a few videos on YouTube of people singing one of my songs "Yesterday Today and Forever". Hearing the different arrangement, churches and nationalities singing my little tune was such an encouragement to me today. I’m working hard on writing a new album, so it meant the world to see my songs were being used out there! Here’s a few You Tube clips below….

So lets remember the power we have to encourage one another… The Bible says the the power of our words can give life. I want to notice when friends or strangers are in need of a kind word, and be someone who speaks life to them. Like I said in the last blog about Schindler – "we are more powerful than we know!!"

If you’re having a tough day, know that I’m praying for you. Pray for me too as I continue songwriting and book writing with the goal of drawing people’s hearts near to God. We can do it!!

Question for y’all!:

"In what area of life do you need to be ‘encouarged’ – ‘given courage’? What are you dreaming of doing, big or small, that needs the support, belief and cheering-on of others around you?"

Love,
Vicky

Hi Blog-friends!

I had a great weekend…hung out with two kids, built a den and watched a movie inside the den… Been a long time since I’ve done that! I need to spend more time with kids..their imagination and sense of play is so refreshing! On Sunday my church rocked. Today the week is off to an inspiring and mellow start as I work on my Book and on writing songs for a new album : )

Last night I watched a movie – Schindler’s List. I saw it once before, when it came out in the cinema back in ’93. Much of it I had forgotten. It last over 3 hours and is a graphic story telling of the Holocaust. Once again I was amazed this all took place during my Grandparent’s generation…it is so recent and living survivors still exist.

The main character, Oskar Schindler, is a business man who’s heart is gradually broken for the plight of the Jews. He has great wealth and realizing that they will be sent to Auschwitz to die, he buys as many Jews as he can, under the guise of employing them in his factory. At the end is a powerful scene where he weeps at the realization that for the sale of his car he could have bought 20 more people, or for the gold brooch on his jacket, two more people…

I definitely don’t want to sound ‘preachy’ here! I’m just feeling inspired and challenged, and this is me speaking to myself as much as to anyone else : ) But….If you are able to sit and read this on a computer, and you own more than a few changes of clothes and have a means of transportation, you and I are among some of the richest people on the planet. Often we look at Hollywood and the movie stars and feel like that is what riches look like! In reality, riches look like OUR lives – when compared to the vast majority of people who live below the poverty line across the globe.

The movie was sobering and left me challenged to realize just how powerful I am – and how powerful you are. We are educated, able to communicate, able to use technology, able to dream and act on those dreams, able to make money and give it away…

Truly the power to change the world lies within our hands…

What will we do with it?

Comments and thoughts are very welcome….share below!

Love,
Vicky