WoooooHoooooooo!!!!!
Stories, ideas, songs I want to save. If you have found THIS and want to read along, WELCOME. If you don't like it, that is fine by me, just move along.
Leighton Joseph Lauglin
More babies, well one here and one on the way. Kyle and Kassidi had their baby boy on March 7, 2017 and he is a big beautiful baby! He weighed 9 lbs and has a head full of beautiful dark hair.
I had dental work on the day he was born. Had several teeth pulled and dentures put in, but I insisted we stop back by the hospital and see him. I was SO loopy from the pain meds they had given me I couldn't even walk straight. Bob had to get a wheelchair for me to sit in. I was ordering him around, buying gifts in the gift shop and looking back, I probably should have waited until the next day, but I really wanted to see the baby that day...haha.
Kyle and Kassidi are so proud of their boy. I know Kyle wanted a boy, because he already had his little princess, and he wanted one of each. So glad it worked out that way.
Now we also found out that Courtney is having a baby in June so we are excited about that too! Can't wait to see the little sugarbaby!
Can a family have too many babies? Not a chance! Love 'em all!
I Like to Sing...So Sue Me
I like to sing. I really like to sing.
I am not a good singer. I have recorded myself countless times, old tape recorder, old cassette recorder, computer, cell phone. I can hear okay, I just don't sound that good singing. kinda off key, sometimes I hit it, sometimes I don't...
Before I decided I didn't sound good, I was singing everywhere. At church, I'd sing a special, well...I might sing two or three. Go to a singing at a different church, I'd sing a couple.
I always thought I sounded okay, until, I recorded myself. Then there is no way to fool yourself or deny the truth, I stink at singing. I want to sing well. I have always wanted to sing but it just isn't meant to be.
I thought God was leading me to sing. Was He, or was it just me wanting to sing? Which leads to something I have heard discussed a lot. I know you should do things you are lead by the Spirit to do, but I have also heard a preacher say, if you can do something well, and it isn't against scripture or God or the Holy Spirit, do it. So, do you have to be lead to sing, or sing for God if you can sing?
I am not going to sing again at church, unless I get some kind of "sign" from God that I am supposed to. I have a sign I have asked for, if I am supposed to sing, and have never had it revealed to me.
I used to ask for a sign, Lord, if I am supposed to sing, let someone ask me to.....then hint to people about singing. I wasn't fishing for compliments exactly, I just wanted to sing and wanted them to like it.
People would tell me, You sing with a lot of heart...okay, I know what that means...I don't want to be the person that sounds awful, off key, screeching, bellering as one man put it, but puts her heart into it. I can put my heart into something I am good at, like....like....well...nothing comes to mind that I am good at, I am kind mediocre....but....
I would have rather somebody just tell me outright that I wasn't a good singer and shouldn't sing, then let me sing like I did for years.
It does kind of dawn on a person after a few years that nobody is asking them to sing....then I think, oh my how awful I must have sounded...and I know even at my best moments I didn't sound like the better singers at church, or somebody off of Gaither for goodness sake.
But, I still like to sing. There are a few people who like to hear me sing. One of them called a few days ago and asked if he and his wife could stop by and me sing a song they liked that they had heard me sing. Two Shoes...it was Two Shoes...he said he would play the guitar for me.
It was lots of fun. We sung that song two or three times, then sung a couple out of a church songbook, then he had me go through a stack of songs he had written out and see if I could sing any of them. He and his wife ended up singing one of those, to me.
One time at another church, a pair of sisters who are well known singers in our area told me they loved my singing. Was I going to make a CD? I thought they were joking but no! They were serious. Really? Really?
Someday, when I get to Heaven, I will have a beautiful voice. I hope. I'm really not sure if I will or if Jesus will be like some of the people here and say "Just sing it and put your heart into it and it will be beautiful." My heart knows that Jesus loves me just as I am but my mind says no way. BTW Jesus...I want to play the piano and the guitar too.
I am not a good singer. I have recorded myself countless times, old tape recorder, old cassette recorder, computer, cell phone. I can hear okay, I just don't sound that good singing. kinda off key, sometimes I hit it, sometimes I don't...
Before I decided I didn't sound good, I was singing everywhere. At church, I'd sing a special, well...I might sing two or three. Go to a singing at a different church, I'd sing a couple.
I always thought I sounded okay, until, I recorded myself. Then there is no way to fool yourself or deny the truth, I stink at singing. I want to sing well. I have always wanted to sing but it just isn't meant to be.
I thought God was leading me to sing. Was He, or was it just me wanting to sing? Which leads to something I have heard discussed a lot. I know you should do things you are lead by the Spirit to do, but I have also heard a preacher say, if you can do something well, and it isn't against scripture or God or the Holy Spirit, do it. So, do you have to be lead to sing, or sing for God if you can sing?
I am not going to sing again at church, unless I get some kind of "sign" from God that I am supposed to. I have a sign I have asked for, if I am supposed to sing, and have never had it revealed to me.
I used to ask for a sign, Lord, if I am supposed to sing, let someone ask me to.....then hint to people about singing. I wasn't fishing for compliments exactly, I just wanted to sing and wanted them to like it.
People would tell me, You sing with a lot of heart...okay, I know what that means...I don't want to be the person that sounds awful, off key, screeching, bellering as one man put it, but puts her heart into it. I can put my heart into something I am good at, like....like....well...nothing comes to mind that I am good at, I am kind mediocre....but....
It does kind of dawn on a person after a few years that nobody is asking them to sing....then I think, oh my how awful I must have sounded...and I know even at my best moments I didn't sound like the better singers at church, or somebody off of Gaither for goodness sake.
But, I still like to sing. There are a few people who like to hear me sing. One of them called a few days ago and asked if he and his wife could stop by and me sing a song they liked that they had heard me sing. Two Shoes...it was Two Shoes...he said he would play the guitar for me.
It was lots of fun. We sung that song two or three times, then sung a couple out of a church songbook, then he had me go through a stack of songs he had written out and see if I could sing any of them. He and his wife ended up singing one of those, to me.
One time at another church, a pair of sisters who are well known singers in our area told me they loved my singing. Was I going to make a CD? I thought they were joking but no! They were serious. Really? Really?
Someday, when I get to Heaven, I will have a beautiful voice. I hope. I'm really not sure if I will or if Jesus will be like some of the people here and say "Just sing it and put your heart into it and it will be beautiful." My heart knows that Jesus loves me just as I am but my mind says no way. BTW Jesus...I want to play the piano and the guitar too.
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