2008 has been a crazy year, and it seems like it's flown by! I've been busier this year than I can remember in a long time, and yet I've been so slack about posting blogs and sending newsletters that probably nobody knows what I'm up to and wonders if I've dropped off the face of the earth.
The truth is, I've been doing a lot of touring with another artist, Leah Martensen www.leahmartensen.com on what we call the Road to Recovery tour. We have visited recovery groups all over the country, sharing our music and our individual stories about our own journeys of recovery. This is a ministry that's really close to my heart--many of you have heard my testimony and so you can understand why! (If you haven't heard my testimony and would like to, check out the media page on my website www.bethchampionmason.com and watch the 700 Club video about my testimony). In fact, I was sharing at a recovery group just tonight in Stafford VA, up near Fredericksburg.
The reason I love recovery ministries is because they are the way churches are *supposed* to be: accepting people exactly the way they come in the door, no matter what their hang-ups are, and loving them to Jesus.
A lot of people don't know that I lead worship every Tuesday night (when I'm in town) at a recovery group in Virginia Beach called Recovery for the City ( www.recoveryforthecity.com ) because when I found out about this ministry, I just wanted to be part of it any way I could.
Anyway, I'm *finally* making good progress on a new CD (yay!!), the first one since "Postcards" came out in 2005 (I can't believe it's been that long!), and I've posted the first completed song from it on my myspace page today, called "I Can Stand." ( www.myspace.com/bethchampionmason ) I wrote this song originally to sing as a congregational song at Recovery for the City. I wanted something that hurting people could use to cry out to the Lord, knowing that even though we're messed up and broken, God is faithful and we can declare that with confidence, resting in Who He is, not in who we try to be. It's a song that was written to give others words to speak their hearts to God, but at the same time ended up being very personal for me. After I wrote it, I thought, "People in recovery will totally get this song, but that's probably it." Then I realized... we are all in recovery from something. We are in recovery from the sin that invades our lives, from the pain of struggling through this world and getting our hearts stepped on time and time again, from mistakes we've made and mistakes others have inflicted on us. So I hope that this song is something that everyone will be able to identify with. My favorite part is the second verse, the things that I think God says about us... that's the truth that I want to focus on.
I'd love for you to take a listen to the song, and post your thoughts.
May God bless you today!
love,
Beth
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