My Elevation Creations

Category: Music

  • Sometimes I Have to Turn Off the Music to Hear It

    Sometimes I Have to Turn Off the Music to Hear It

    In 2008, my siblings and our families gathered at our parents home in Eastern Oregon for a family reunion. At the time, I had a job cleaning a car dealership at night. It was a big place with a call center, so lots of cubicles, the showroom, some offices, and a shop to clean. Ron would go with me every night, and it took us about an hour and a half to get it all done. Needless to say, I had a lot of time to plug in my earbuds and sing my heart out. Ron was usually running the vacuum, so I didn’t worry about him hearing me, and if there were spooks in the building I’m sure they enjoyed the entertainment. I memorized the Wicked soundtrack in no time flat, and sang with the Angels while listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Sometimes, it was Rascal Flats, but my point is, that I heard a lot of music while I worked there. Some nights I would turn off the music and see what I could hear inside my head. This is when I would hear melodies and lyrics that were inspiration from above, and when I could surrender to the creativity that was given to me. That is where I got started on a song I wrote for my family reunion that summer of 2008. It’s called Together Again.

    I played this recording of it last fall for some friends of mine while we were at the doTERRA Global Convention in Salt Lake City, and I found it very applicable to our team as well. I love my biological family, and all of the other families I’ve been a part of over the years. My doTERRA family, my Canton Ward family, my Band mom family, my Melodier family, and so many more. Isn’t it such a blessing to all belong to the family of God and to know that we are all his children. So my friends, near and far, counting the days till we are together again.

     

  • My First Song Composition

    My First Song Composition

    I went to girls camp (a church camp for girls ages 12-18) with my daughters for a week during the summer of 2007. While there we were given a booklet of poems and thoughts to help inspire us during our daily scripture study time. I was reading one of the poems by an unknown author, and one of the lines struck me, “be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” When I got home from camp, I sat down one day and wrote the lyrics to a song based on that line. The song is about our journey in life, and the people we meet along the way. I’ve tried a few times to finish the song with an arrangement on the piano, but have yet to get it done. I hope you enjoy the melody and the words, but especially the spirit I wish to convey with each listening. Love and joy to you all!

  • Christmas dvd from 2012

    Christmas dvd from 2012

    I’ve been singing since before I could talk, so my mother tells me. I used to be fearless in my performances, and sometimes I am still fearless, and other times it scares me. It’s amazing to me that I can play a recording of me singing and get just as nervous as if I were performing live. One of my favorite performances was at a Christmas party at church. I was singing live to a video about the nativity, so the lights were off and everyone was looking at the screen. I was standing at the back of the gym and everyone thought the music was part of the video. That took so much pressure off me!

    After this performance we decided to make this DVD and send it to our families for Christmas.  It’s a treasured memory from that performance.

    The video is an excerpt of a video put out by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the birth of Christ.  The song I am singing is called Breath of Heaven and according to google was originally sung by Amy Grant from her album Home for Christmas.

    It’s truly amazing how well the words of the song and the video fit together.  Hope you enjoy this as much as I did performing it.

  • JJ’s Funeral Song

    JJ’s Funeral Song

    My husband’s dad passed away a few weeks ago, and we both flew to Alaska to be with his family and attend the funeral. I had the privilege of singing at the funeral. Not always an easy task, or ever an easy task, but with lots of prayers to sing without tears, I accepted. I sang a song called Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing arranged by Sally Deford, I was accompanied by Aunt Jeanne. She did a fantastic job. Thanks to my brother in law Johnney for filming this.