The books are BORN -- the twins are here!!

Today was like any other day at work, with the phone busier than normal this afternoon...but my head was not really at work. I knew KC was working on mixing down all the songs, so my thoughts were more on the music than on corporate America.



As I left work, I was contemplating what decisions awaited me here at home. The last CD proofs were already done, but the sales tax license paperwork remains outstanding, as does the embroidery digitizing quote...



I walked up the steps and on the second to the last one from the top was a brown box from Xlibris. I thought it was the book markers and business cards. Then, as I started to open the box, I caught of glimpse of the cover art, which was way toooooooo big to be a book marker.



Then, as if I were a kid on Christmas morning, I tore into the box in a flurry and there they were: The soft cover and The hard cover edition of Gems from the Jewelry Box: God Loves You MOST!!! I looked at them - flipped through them - kept looking at them - and then looked at them some more. They are skinnier than I imagined they would be and the pictures are clearer than I thought. I keep looking at them...amazed by God's goodness...



I texted one person, then the next, and then received a phone call from this friend, and that friend. The evening has been filled with texts back with congratulations and well wishes...after the texts asking who I was were answered. It occurs to me that I have been in a book and CD bubble since December and haven't really been too communicative. No, it was even before that - maybe November or October even, and it is now the end of April. WOW!



They are really here, after all these months and it is really happening - this labor has been completed and I am the proud parent of two baby books. The hard cover has the cutest little dust jacket and the soft cover has its skinny little spine. AWE! So cute!!



It took a few minutes after I actually opened the box for the tears to come. I am overwhelmed by God's goodness and life changing power. For the longest time, I could never have imagined anything so cool happening in my life...a book --- and



Now, I await the birth of the octuplets, the 8 song CD filled with originals...



I await anxiously to hear all the songs put together in one package, and hear all the tweaks that are being done on the months of work, really years of work that have seemed to suddenly have flown by, the years that have brought us to this place musically. I can't wait to hear the fruit! Thank You KC!!!



I don't know how, but I have to try to sleep now - resting in God and all His promises...



Today's manna was pretty amazing - My God is pretty amazing!!



I pray you are all blessed and that you all rejoice with me as the next journey in terms of the book is about to begin as well...the teaching, preaching, and evangelizing that will go forth!



There are moments in life when you reach a point, and you know life will never be the same - this is such a moment and I thank God and those of you who are a part of it, those who have supported me along the way, and those who continue to spur me along!!



I love you all, but remember...God loves you most!!



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