Brad, I'm praying for you about this. I pray that you will make a living at
this new venture.

This is something I've always wanted to do, however, I've never persued it,
and I don't feel I'm good enough to sing perfessionally, and I pray that
God would give me encouragement, as you did describe my feelings that I've
felt, and ow I need to be encouraged by what you wrote.

Cecily, and Paulette, and I have a friend who just recently wrote a
beautiful song, and the story behind this song is totally beautiful, sweet,
and so very sad.

She doesn't have internet access, but we have all encouraged Mona Gerg to
put her song on CD. She is so very tallented. When I first heard her song,
I cried. It was so beautiful, that when Michael heard it, he almost cried,
also.

I'll tell that whole story in another message.

Brad, I will be praying for you. I encourage you with all our hearts, to
persue this Godly dream and let it come true for you

I remember hearing you sing and play the guitar, on E-Voice, and you are
blessed with a wonderful tallent of singing and playing the guitar..

God Bless you,

Lovingly,
Pat Ferguson
At 12:21 AM 12/11/2005, you wrote:
>   In case any one was wondering. You may remember my asking for prayer for
>a decision I made  on songwriting. The proverbial boomerang which I kept
>tossing off, denying it and etc. and it kept coming back to whack me in the
>back of the head as I walked away from it. I had decided to pursue
>it,  take whatever fear I had regarding it, look it in the eye, and go
>forward anyway. Well I've arranged for my songwriting books to be scanned
>as I'm not too proud to say I can yet learn things from them, plus they are
>good ways to spark knew ideas for songs, plus I picked up a couple others.
>I also joined the Nashville Songwriters Association International, have
>listened to all their archived Thursday night workshops, read quite a few
>articles, and will be attending the next NSAI group meeting here in January
>to begin networking and get to know some other writers in which to learn
>from as well, and perhaps do come co-writing. I'm seeing that is a very
>important tool even for well established writers, while yet keeping the
>solo writing. I've also been pushing  of late on some song ideas I had
>barely rumbling around in my head and actually have come up with three
>ideas in the past few days, one of which the song is nearly complete, the
>other two have a good start on lyrical idea and melody to accompany the
>chord progressions. So I've prayed that if God wants me to do this, to
>unlock this brain a bit, and cut me loose  enough to be creative again and
>etc. And he has done so. I want to say two things here, well probably
>three. The first observation I made regarding this songwriting thing that I
>can apply to other areas of my life, and hopefully yours too  if I
>can  make my thoughts clear enough. And that is I've had, for a long time,
>wanted to  be a write songs, tapped into it a little bit, and backed off,
>tapped in, backed off and etc. Why didn't I pursue it? Despite my wife's
>not only support if I chose to, she outright got mad at me several times
>for not doing it lol. She never gave up but I continually said "No, no, no.
>You have no idea what songwriting is lit, about, or what it takes'> First I
>was  not only looking at it wrong, that is I was looking at the monetary
>aspect or the fiscal aspect in stead of the "write because you love to
>write' aspect. So I was straightened out on that one so observation #1
>would be, don't let dollars get in the way of a dream God has planted in
>you. Secondly I  noticed I would get close to taking action on writing, but
>back off, take a bit more  and back off. And this was the biggest thing I
>learned which can be applied to life is that because I  valued songwriting
>and guitar so much so in my own little world, that I couldn't bare it if I
>got out in the real world and found out what I had really wasn't all that
>great or that I had need to learn more. I was afraid that if I got out
>there where the "real action" was in writing, that I'd fall flat on my face
>and wah-la, no more dream shot forever. So I, without realizing it,
>sabotaged my efforts to protect my little dream. So observation #2 is to be
>courageous, see the fear you have in what lies ahead but don't let it stop
>you from your dreams.  With that knowledge I realized as well that I can't
>be too proud to say that I need to learn, I'm a student of song and music
>and I have not quote, "arrived", and that unless I'm willing to put my
>childish pride away and even though I've played guitar for 30 years, I
>might just have myself in little ruts and could actually learn form other
>players even if they are  younger than me the little creeps lol. Kidding.
>So observation #3 is to be willing to learn and educate yourself on the
>dreams and gifts you have been given. And another very important
>observation which I know, puts you on borrowed time here of an already
>possibly boring read lol, and that is observation #4 my wife read to me by
>a Christian author who said if you aren't willing to sacrifice everything
>you have for your dream... keep looking, it's not your dream. Of course
>wisdom is needed one isn't just going to sacrifice everything to try to
>make a dream happen, but it is as I've said many times that it is a matter
>of the heart. One knows if it is right. So that is a tid bit of update and
>a couple observations quickly jotted down if they are in any way  worth
>pondering.
>
>Brad
>
>
>Brad
>
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