Music and Stories from Art Wheeler
This is the fourth in a series of seven posts where I share my thoughts about my song Creation and the story in the first chapter of Genesis.“On the fourth day God filled the sky with lightsThe sun for day and the moon for nightsAnd He scattered stars in the evening skyAs signs to mark …
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This is the third in a series of seven posts where I share my thoughts about my song Creation and the story in the first chapter of Genesis.“On the third day God took all the seaAnd split it up where the ground would beAnd He filled the ground with plants and treesThat reproduce by making …
This is the second in a series of seven posts where I share my thoughts about my song Creation and the story in the first chapter of Genesis.“On the next day God took the water highHe split it up and He made it dryIt’s a great expanse that He called the skyWith water low and …
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This is the first in a series of seven posts where I share my thoughts about my song Creation and the story in the first chapter of Genesis. When I wrote the song Creation, I was doing mainly as a memory device. Before I wrote the song if you asked me what God created on what …
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Late last year, there were several things going on in my life that inspired me to write Don’t Cry For Me When I’m Gone. One of my best friends was moving. I been alive long enough to realize how relationships change when friends move away from each other. Relationships change over time anyway, but those changes …
I remember as a kid, we would occasionally get Christmas cards that had the phrase “Happy Holidays” or “Seasons Greetings” on the front. We would receive these cards from family members that I knew were good Christian women. I never thought of these phrases as potentially offensive to Christians. But it seems like we have …
It was the Christmas season and I was driving through in my neighborhood with some of my kids on the way to church. I saw an old blow molded nativity scene in one of the yards and the phrase came to me: “Shine on Electric Jesus! Shine on!” This was the start of writing this …
I have written music off and on throughout my life. Most of the things I did early in my life weren’t work keeping around. There are bits and pieces of this music stored away in drawers at my father’s house but it’s really not worth digging up. Sometime around 1998 or 1999, I started work …
I have written in a previous blog post about one of my 4-H experiences. For a couple of years in high school, I participated in 4-H as a member of a crop judging team. I spent a lot of time learning how to identify different types of seeds. I spent very little time learning how to evaluate hay …
I wrote the song The Promised Land to sing during the memorial service at a church homecoming. The church I grew up in has a homecoming celebration every year on the second Sunday in June. Most of the people that go to this church are related to my mother. The same goes for the people that come …
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