Let Music do the Praying For You
I used to sing in the car to myself, to my babies, to the sky. In our “before Ireland” days, I’d wake up with the sun to drive my husband to work. Then I’d sit in the parking lot on sweaty afternoons waiting for him to clock out with a hungry, fussy baby passing minutes […]
The Psalms: A Soundtrack for Life
The opening bars of Paul Simon’s Graceland album might be perfection. U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name” is the song I am convinced will be playing when I wake up in glory at the end of my days. Music. It has been a part of my life since my earliest memories. I know some […]
The Greatest Song You’ve Never Heard
Do you hear that? Stop for a second. Listen. It’s faint but undeniably present. Can you hear it? It seems to be . . . a melody. It is distant, almost inaudible. If you strain you will hear it more clearly. It is beautiful, wistful, enrapturing. This is the sound of your life. Indeed, life […]
An Interview with Eine Blume
Today we’re interviewing some of Velvet Ashes’ favorite musicians! Caleb and Erin Paxton are the husband and wife behind Eine Blume, the band that created our Velvet Ashes Retreat music and who so generously donated their other two albums to retreat participants. /// Caleb and Erin, the music that you wrote for us for the […]
Farewell to Shadowlands Music Giveaway!
You know that feeling you get when you have a Christmas present that is just right for someone you love? That happy excitement you have as they pop through that first piece of tape? That’s how I feel right now. I feel like you’re opening present that you are going to LOVE. Today I’m […]