“Sometimes it’s hard to be a processor, because you spend a lot of your time processing. I guess it’s all part of the process.”

I laugh now at my recent post on Facebook and decide to expound a bit here…

Yes!!! There is new music coming! Hallelujah, He is worthy! By God’s grace and tender mercies, working together with Uncle Phil Keaggy and many others, we have successfully finished the new album. Much love and gratitude to all who have believed in this project through your prayers and financial support.

By way of an update, I’m currently seeking guidance for various aspects of releasing WHAT I KNOW TO BE TRUE. While I’m determined to furnish physical CDs to supporters before Christmas, the general consensus may be to officially release in January 2022. If you’d like to be in that “pre-release” number, there’s still time. A gift of any amount to the GoFundMe will put a signed CD in your mailbox, and great joy in my heart.

By way of confession, I’ve been overwhelmed at tackling the nuts and bolts of getting the album “out there” now that it’s finished. I’ve been processing and questioning the whens and hows, and asking the Lord to provide connections and help with things in that regard. This is hard for recovering perfectionists and deep feelers like me. Not to mention the typical Resistance that often accompanies creatives, and the challenges of being an independent artist without in-house promoters and marketeers.

And, yet, there is a calling and the Lord keeps nudging me forward.

Reading a seemingly unrelated passage from 2 Timothy the other day, I felt first burdened for others, and then personally convicted. “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.” (italics mine – 2 Tim. 4:3-5)

And there it is. I may not know all the whens and hows in this moment. But, by golly, I do believe God is going to make a way for me, and whomever may come alongside, to “discharge all the duties” of getting this music out into the world where God can use it for His glory.

So, I took a coffee with someone who might be able to connect me to someone else, who might be able to help execute a plan. And I called the manufacturer to get a

few questions answered. And I cried and complained and prayed, as is often part of all the processing, and I asked the Lord to provide and empower in spite of all my deficits. And I told Him how I long for His return. And that’s really the main thing, isn’t it? And then, I sat down to process a little more with you, by writing this here. And I got a little further down the road.

Thank you for your patience waiting on this music. As I typed in the liner notes forthcoming (after I figure out if we squeeze fifteen song lyrics into an eight panel booklet insert, or if we’ll need the twelve panel one, or if we should just make them all available online), I typed…

We believe in the weight of these songs and the power of God to minister through them.

I believe, Lord, help me in my unbelief, and in spite of all my shortcomings. You are God. You are able. It will happen.

Let it be, for Your glory…

Cheri