Singing Audition Videos

I had been asked to send an audition tape to a friend to see if she wants to use me for a new business she is starting doing wedding and princess birthday parties. Enjoy the videos!

I am preparing both of these songs for my exams for the Royal Conservatory in May. So please do give me your thoughts and positive criticism.

God bless!
Rebecca

Music Studies Series Part 2

Hi everyone! I thought I would share another video set I filmed a few weeks back of me practicing and giving practicing tips. I hope its helpful and is informative as well as fun to watch. :) Some of my explaining might not be so great, but that's why I am doing these videos to get better at teaching about piano and music theory in general. Its also been fun and helped me a lot to think through what I am doing to practice for my exams through the TAP program and if its effective and productive. Enjoy!

Part 1

Part 2 below- 

I hope your Sunday is blessed and restful and focused on Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. He is the reason I am doing this program and have the motivation to learn from home and with believing teachers.

In Christ,
Rebecca

Music Studies Series Part 1

Hello everyone! I decided to start sharing vlogs of my musical studies with you all. I hope you enjoy and learn something and are encouraged to pursue what God is calling you to through these videos. This is the first in a series of videos I have been filming over the past few weeks. I plan to do more videos as well explaining reasons I am taking the exams besides ones I have stated below. Also I feel this video touches only the surface of the lake of all my thoughts about music and this program. :) So more vlogs to come!

You can find my music certification program over here. TAP stands for The Achievement Program and this program has been sponsored and created by the Royal Conservatory in Canada and The Royal Conservatory at Carnegie Hall, which is in New York. So this program called TAP is the new american music program, it has been in Canada under a different name for over 150 years I believe. So I am so glad and grateful I was able to start the program in 2012 the first year of its manifestation. :) Its amazing how God worked it all out for me to get musical learning through this program, to be able to teach, play piano and sing, compose music, and share my music with others and worship Him through the whole program.

God bless you and thanks for watching and reading. :)

Rebecca

This is where the healing begins

Praise the Lord that we can confess our sins to Him and confess our sins to our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Lord I pray that people in our churches would look at us like You look at us and see Jesus not the sin, because Jesus covers all the stains and makes us pure. Thank you Jesus that you died for us your church your beloved!

Blessings,
Rebecca

Oh and btw readers I have some vlogs coming up real soon about my vocal/piano studies through The Achievement Program with Carnegie Hall. So thank you for your patience, I know I have been very neglectant of catching you all up on my life. I promise to post soon. :)

When We Speak Your Name

I was praying and really just pouring out to God my cares and worries and things I need Him to do. I can do nothing, only He can move mountains. A friend in a prayer group I am apart of shared this song and its my hearts cry right now. I have decided to stop doing College Plus and now am really just wanting God to reveal His will to me right now for what I should do with my life. There are so many opportunites, but I need Him to show me what His will is and what I should do for His glory in His time.
So that is why this blog has been silent for almost a month, its been a trying month, but God is faithful and He is moving mountains in my life! :)

In Christ,
Rebecca

Since I don't have a camera.....

I thought I would share with you all what has been going on in my life in words today. My blog has been mostly about cooking, creativity in sewing and music, living history, and my family, but today I thought I would share from my heart what the Lord has been doing in my life. I was inspired by other bloggers who wear their faith on their sleeves and I thought I would write my thoughts too. The Lord told me to share with you all my struggles and His amazing strength through my struggles and life.

I started college plus last week! I am excited and scared and frustrated at the same time. Its a lot of work of course to do college and I actually never thought the day would come when I would start. I am thankful for my parents being encouraging and reminding me that I can do it through Christs strength. I am also thankful to be able to live at home while doing my college studies. I will Lord willing be doing a music major, so I will be studying music theory, voice, piano, music history, and performance Lord willing.

But first I am clepping out of a lot of my classes that I already did in high school. Clepping is a great way to be able to get your college degree faster and for less money. You study for a subject lets say Algebra 1 and then you take a test called a clep exam and then if you pass you don't have to take the class because you knew the material well enough and go the credit by the examination. It seems to be a great way to do the classes I already did in high school faster. Then I could focus on music and history courses.

The first thing you do in the college plus program is their Life Purpose Planning. I have been doing it since last thursday and I thought I would share with you my Life Being Purpose Statement. Now this is basically my convictions from the Lord about how and why I should live my life and for the purpose of serving the Lord. A reader asked me a while back if I would share my testimony, I will be doing that in the coming weeks as I believe the Lord would want me to share that. But for right now here is my Life Being Purpose Statement to tide you over. The Lord has really told me point blank through the Bible, His Word exactly what my life should be and my purpose is to serve Him. Each point in my statement is something I believe I should do as a daughter of the Lord to serve Him with my whole life. I pray that this will help others understand what I believe about my faith better and convict and encourage all of you!

My Life Being Purpose Statement
As Gods daughter, servant, and new creation I commit to lose my life and let Christ guide me in my new life. I commit to take up my cross and follow Him daily. –Matthew 10:28-29
I commit to rejoice always in the Lord no matter how hard it may be to do so. – Philippians 4:4
I commit to constantly read, memorize, and meditate on the Word of God, to let it dwell in me richly, and I will teach and admonish others in wisdom. I commit to express thankfulness to God for giving me His Word to guide me. – Colossians 3:14-17

I commit to strive to overcome my sins by God’s grace alone. I commit to let no corrupting talk come out of my mouth, but only what is good for building up those around me. I commit to strive to help others live by God’s grace in every conversation I am apart of. – Ephesians 4: 31-32
I commit to put away all bitterness, wrath, anger, and all malice to serve the Lord in my words, thoughts, and actions. – Ephesians 4: 31-32

I commit to be kind and forgiving as Christ forgave me. – Ephesians 4: 26- 27
I commit to count everything of this world as loss for the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. – Philippians 3:8

I will strive to hear my Heavenly Father’s instruction and to hear my earthly father’s instruction, to not forsake my mother’s teaching, and to put their teaching on my head as a garland of grace and as a pendant around my neck. In this way, I may always remember the Lords commandments and hear my parents’ teachings. – Proverbs 1:8-9
May each of my days on this earth always result in praise to my God. – 1 Peter 1:7

May I always do the Lord’s commandments and not obey my corrupt heart. May I be holy and do all His commandments in a holy way. – Numbers 15:38-39
May my outward appearance reflect good works, resulting from the Holy Spirit. I commit to always be conscious of my forbearing and appearance of my actions, words, appearance and dress to reflect Christ Jesus my Lord. –1Timothy 2: 9-10


And lastly, but not least, I commit to rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and be patient in tribulation, for the rest of my life. – Romans 12:12

I read this life being statement daily to remind me what I am living for! I recommend writing one up even if you are not doing college with college plus. It really put things in perspective and helped me to see a long term goal each day. The goal of living for Christ and being a light to others who need the Lord and someday Heaven with our Lord forever.
So this week has been a good week, but I have also struggled. Satan has been saying to me that this new part of my life doing college is too hard and that the Lord is not strong enough or mighty enough to help me through it. But the Lord said in His Word otherwise,

"Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings. For the moth will eat them up like a wool garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."- Isaiah 51:7-8

I was in fear of what others thought of me and I was afraid, but His righteousness will last forever not the thoughts of man! His Salvation is what matters and He is righteous, because He is righteous He can make us all righteous, only by His Spirit can He set us free by His stripes we are healed.
I was afraid of being different from the world and doing what the Lord had told me and my family to do in regards to my education after homeschool. But the Lord is good and He is mightier than the world and He shines through all of that to show His plan.

Today I was not feeling well and the load of homework and other things that were needing to be done stressed me out. But I went to the Lord the maker and perfector of my faith and He picked me up out of the miry bog making my steps secure and put my feet upon the Rock! He is the Rock of my salvation, may He be glorified in our weakness. I was overwhelmed and the Lord is more powerful than our thoughts and His ways are mightier.

" For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than your ways and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts."- Isaiah 55:8-9

So if you are feeling overwhelmed or discouraged by others around you, the to-do list, or your life the Lord is mighty and He will bring you our of the pit of destruction and set your feet upon His secure Rock. I pray that He will strengthen you and myself to be mightier than sin and Satans discouragement to live for Him in joy and gladness.

This last chapter of Isaiah really encouraged me last night, the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves and He will never forget us!

" Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on His afflicted. But Zion said, " The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me." Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you! Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me." -Isaiah 49-14

The Lord will never forget us and He will always encourage us! May you all
In Christ,
Rebecca

All photos by Lindsey W. photography and may not be used without my permission. All the pictures are from Long Wood Gardens two years ago.