Sweet Embrace


As a little blue-eyed girl
Running free across the grass
Looking down at dandelions
Then looking up at the sky
Warmed by the golden sun-
Is when I was first made aware…
Etched in my mind are these precious moments
When I first knew.

Newly awakened-
By Holy
Love.

I am under the eyes of God
Who made everything beautiful.
Time in His Hands-
Perfect are His plans.
Seasons slowly change
Secretly,
Silently,
The Light of the world
Sweetly embraces
All He loves.

I rest in the nights
Knowing,
His song shall ever be with me,
Dreaming peacefully
Under the shadow of His wing.



Psalm 36:7
How excellent is thy lovingkindness,
O God! Therefore the children of men put
Their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

I'm so glad you came back here, Julie, your work is always so uplifting. I was just a little girl too when I felt God's Grace, so I maybe know how you felt at that moment.

Julie, you'll be interested to know that Christian musician Lynn Sanch has recorded my song "I Am Just an Instrument." I made a little video for my Mom's Birthday today with my own vocal version of the melody playing as the soundtrack and put it on my YouTube page - my first 'video'. I'll give you the link, I think you'll like seeing all the pictures too:

http://youtube.com/profile?user=AlicetheAuthor

And then Lynn put the instrumental version on her MySpace page, so now I have it playing on my own page!!

http://www.myspace.com/alicecbateman

I've been outside so much for the past several weeks I haven't had much time on the computer, sorry it took me a couple of days to get here and find you!! I have got the yard even tamer than it is in these pictures by today, so now it just needs regular maintainence instead of hours of work daily!

Love You, Big HUGS,

Alice

I loved the song you sang and all the pictures . I visited your Myspace also. Very nice !



Your family is fortunate to have you . You are most inspiring and loving.



God bless you always,


Julie

Hi Julie,

I'm glad you had a chance to look and share in my little Wonderland. I'm glad you liked the song too, the music Lynn Sanch put to it is a lot faster than I sing it, but the melody is so close to my own it's marvellous!!

One of these years maybe I'll make time to teach myself about music so I don't have to find other people and interest them in my songs, but for now I'm just thrilled that my first one is on a CD.

MySpace is a good place to have a page, there's always some weird friend requests and things like that, always someone who wants to get romantic or their version of romantic anyway, but I just ignore or delete those types. I'm not a snob, just don't have time for any of that kind of stuff!!

I'd like to be able to say that MySpace is a good promotions place to sell books and things, but it's really not, I even put my three books into ebooks and made a page to sell them for $5.00, and I've had one order so far. It's hard to sell books without already having a name, I'm hoping the movie of One American Dreamer will go a long way to making me more firmly established as a writer!!

All in God's Good Time, right?

Love and Many Blessings,

Alice