PS - I wrote my first song in 1989. It was a surprise as it just flowed through me all at once. I'd been singing publicly since age four, but that blew me away! It was so, so fun! Since then, I've written over 50 songs, with 34 published to date. In 2005, I worked with two studios, one in Nashville and one in Minnesota, and a variety of musicians and vocalists, to produce "It's My Honor," featuring nine of my favorites. It cost thousands and thousands of dollars and took what felt like forever, but it got out there, and several are on CCLI (the site churches use to get songs for Sunday worship). Some are sung regularly around the world. Twelve of the last thirteen I published were from my own keyboard, using my phone to record. Not ideal! Recently, a Nashville producer helped me put together my theme song for our Women's Ministry Leadership Conferences. He used AI to turn my words, chords, and recorded keyboard with voice (via my phone, of course!) into a finished song so fast it blew my mind! When I received the rendition, it was spiritually powerful: I just sat and cried as I worshipped. God's presence and power were undeniable, despite the AI musical involvement. Clearly, this has opened a whole new season for me. I admit I struggled for a moment with the idea of producing Christian songs using AI, but honestly, the words aren't from AI, and the music is directed by me. I compare it to typing words into my computer to produce a book. None of the tools beyond those first keystrokes are mine. Copy machines — now AI —are tools God has given us to use for HIS glory. What I always warn is that there is one thing AI will never do for us: flow the Holy Spirit. That part is up to us -- but once we've received instructions, words, lyrics, poems, songs, etc, let AI help you in the same way the printing press helped get the Bible into all of our hands. I am grateful for the freedom—and even the Holy Spirit's compelling— to embrace God's provision of help through the tool of AI in the rendering of these songs. I'm excited to get them out to you and hope you enjoy them. If you want the FULL playlist of all of my published original songs, that’s here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRDCVakT4428DP4prLMA1p_XGP26w-PWl The Healing Playlist is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRDCVakT442_tSsLYmG2L4Tb3SKuUqneR |