SONGS TESTIMONY
How They Came To Be
How does one with no particularly obvious musical
background produce music that not only
sounds not too bad, but one that gives a message
backed by sound doctrine? Well let me
tell you how God touched my life,
brought someone wonderfully kind into my life
and set us to writing songs together.
Somewhere during 2004, I had a very severe leg
problem that kept me in the hospital for 6 days.
I could not walk on my own and was told as I prepared
to leave that I would probably never walk again.
But I did and do. I am not doing well with my
leg but with help I get around. It took a long time
to get going again and I became depressed.
The only thing that kept body and soul together
was my faith that God had charge of my life and He knew
everything that was going on with me, and would help me get
past my sadness at the present circumstances.
He did something so marvelous that even
today I marvel at the way He changed my life
from sadness to joy and peace. I met a sweet woman
named Donna Wade at a song writers group
that I attended in my misery and frustration.
While praising God, in spite of everything,
songs and melodies flowed from my lips and I was
so overcome that I did not know what to do.
I had a few that had been written by me some years
before, but I could not get anyone to help me
to put them to music so I put them away.
One day I felt led to call Donna and she remembered
me and was wondering what I had been up to
since we had met. I was taken by surprise not
believing that I am that memorable, but was delighted
and that gave me the courage to ask her to help me. She
responded by saying that she would be over that
night after work. I was thrilled but nervous.
Would she think my songs were worthy of her time
and effort to help me? I did not have to worry. She
appreciated my songs, both words and the melody
that I feebly had sung on a tape. She agreed to take them home
and work on them and soon she was back with her full
instrumental accompaniment and when the CD started
I cried, ran over to her, hugged and thanked her with much
gratitude as I felt overwhelmed. My song was now
a real song. After this we collaborated on a total of eight
songs and they are combinations of my tune and lyrics, her
tune and my lyrics and her tune and lyrics.
We helped each other in many ways,
both of us not being professional.
Donna is so good that I must admit, she is far better than
I because she has published work. But I must be fair,
there is no way that any of this would have become
a reality without her wonderful musical sense and know-how .
Her ability to make such music out of the meager
offerings that I gave her still fills me with love and gratitude
for her. We plan to do more songs as soon as we can,
but we both are satisfied that we took vision from
God Himself and made something of it all.
I worked through my pain and sadness,
and she trusted an old lady and went out of her way
to give me a much needed boost. She also proved
that when someone trusts God enough to respond to a
need, as she did that night ,that any act of kindness
done in His name may ultimately change
someone’s life.
As you listen, if you are inclined to after all this
explanation, I ask you in humility to please listen
to the words. They are what carry the message that
God is our all in all and that He deserves all the Glory.
Donna and I are just the messengers. The music will touch
you also, but the words are the reality of
the message. Thank you for reading this far.
As I write this I feel such love and gratitude to God,
Donna and all of you who listen to our feeble efforts
to reveal God to all who will listen.
May God’s richest blessings rest upon you
and yours now and forever.
I have since met a dear sweet brother-in-Christ
who has also recorded some of these
songs. Therefore you may find two versions
of the same song. One female, one male.
background produce music that not only
sounds not too bad, but one that gives a message
backed by sound doctrine? Well let me
tell you how God touched my life,
brought someone wonderfully kind into my life
and set us to writing songs together.
Somewhere during 2004, I had a very severe leg
problem that kept me in the hospital for 6 days.
I could not walk on my own and was told as I prepared
to leave that I would probably never walk again.
But I did and do. I am not doing well with my
leg but with help I get around. It took a long time
to get going again and I became depressed.
The only thing that kept body and soul together
was my faith that God had charge of my life and He knew
everything that was going on with me, and would help me get
past my sadness at the present circumstances.
He did something so marvelous that even
today I marvel at the way He changed my life
from sadness to joy and peace. I met a sweet woman
named Donna Wade at a song writers group
that I attended in my misery and frustration.
While praising God, in spite of everything,
songs and melodies flowed from my lips and I was
so overcome that I did not know what to do.
I had a few that had been written by me some years
before, but I could not get anyone to help me
to put them to music so I put them away.
One day I felt led to call Donna and she remembered
me and was wondering what I had been up to
since we had met. I was taken by surprise not
believing that I am that memorable, but was delighted
and that gave me the courage to ask her to help me. She
responded by saying that she would be over that
night after work. I was thrilled but nervous.
Would she think my songs were worthy of her time
and effort to help me? I did not have to worry. She
appreciated my songs, both words and the melody
that I feebly had sung on a tape. She agreed to take them home
and work on them and soon she was back with her full
instrumental accompaniment and when the CD started
I cried, ran over to her, hugged and thanked her with much
gratitude as I felt overwhelmed. My song was now
a real song. After this we collaborated on a total of eight
songs and they are combinations of my tune and lyrics, her
tune and my lyrics and her tune and lyrics.
We helped each other in many ways,
both of us not being professional.
Donna is so good that I must admit, she is far better than
I because she has published work. But I must be fair,
there is no way that any of this would have become
a reality without her wonderful musical sense and know-how .
Her ability to make such music out of the meager
offerings that I gave her still fills me with love and gratitude
for her. We plan to do more songs as soon as we can,
but we both are satisfied that we took vision from
God Himself and made something of it all.
I worked through my pain and sadness,
and she trusted an old lady and went out of her way
to give me a much needed boost. She also proved
that when someone trusts God enough to respond to a
need, as she did that night ,that any act of kindness
done in His name may ultimately change
someone’s life.
As you listen, if you are inclined to after all this
explanation, I ask you in humility to please listen
to the words. They are what carry the message that
God is our all in all and that He deserves all the Glory.
Donna and I are just the messengers. The music will touch
you also, but the words are the reality of
the message. Thank you for reading this far.
As I write this I feel such love and gratitude to God,
Donna and all of you who listen to our feeble efforts
to reveal God to all who will listen.
May God’s richest blessings rest upon you
and yours now and forever.
I have since met a dear sweet brother-in-Christ
who has also recorded some of these
songs. Therefore you may find two versions
of the same song. One female, one male.
I hope you will drop me an e-mail and give me your thoughts.
You can contact me click here- Rosemary Gain
I will give each e-mail my personal attention and consideration.
