Happy Birthday, Harvest Sue!

Happy Birthday to sweet Harvest Sue, our PoOL mascot! At seven, she has been years of fun and a great joy. Harvest is a worship dog.  Whenever worship music fills the air at home or whenever I improvise with worship sounds, there she is, lost in the beauty of...

Patience is a virtue I have to pray for

Used to be I’d walk out on stage and play. Not now. Links, and website plug-ins, and Word Press, and audio players – we have to have them all for our online audience, they say. It can become a time-eating, tech monster. And I can become impatient. Add the new...

Play for God, not people

Not encouraged to pursue a career in music as a child, I lacked a mother’s blessing, that is until 2009. Waiting at an elevator in China after a group breakfast, international ministry leader, Marilyn Hickey, said to me, ”That was so-o-o anointed, so...