I am sooooo close! My music is in the final stage of being set and I can’t wait to share it!
While I am waiting, I am building up a facebook page devoted to music and our ministry where-abouts. Will you please go and “like” it?
I would really appreciate your support!!
In the next couple of days I will be revealing my album cover and running a few contests with some cool give-aways.
Stay tuned…I think there may be an ipad in the mix:)
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Whenever I am feeling un-inpsired to cook, I open up one Kate Lee Joel’s cookbooks. It has been my goal to make everything in her books once but this recipe I am sharing has become a repeat. It has zucchini in it and all of my kids devour it. Score!
I feel really good about myself when this comes out of the oven. And when I am grating the nutmeg and the zucchini, I feel like I’m a pretty legit cook. just sayin..
SO here it is.. click the link and it will take you right to the recipe:)
http://www.katieleehome.com/spicy-zucchini-pineapple-bread/
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Is your mind spinning from all the news this week?
I see heartache in so many directions.
Some are personal battles, and some reveal the inhumane hate that exists in our world. Whether it is personal for you, or you share in the pain of those affected by the tragic events this week in Boston, it is pain. Sometimes severe pain. Pain that reveals our dependence on the hope we have in Jesus.
What are we supposed to do when it seems like God has left us to fend for ourselves?
What are we supposed to do when the darkness hovers like billows of smoke?
We pray. We hit our knees and we pray.
Ephesians 6:17
In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.
Prayer is miraculous. Through prayer you have the power to engage heaven, and the authority to command angels.
Meditate- Think on things that are lovely, that are good, that are of good report. The Message Bible translates Phillipians 4:6-8
Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.
This scripture is my focus and I use it to push back against confusion. Our heads fill us with impending doom and we have to replace those thoughts with praiseworthy ones. Some things can rattle us so much we may question who is really in charge here! If evil can cause us to doubt, then evil has won our thoughts. Be quick to recognize where those thoughts are coming from and aware that no negative idea is in your head from God. Though we cant deny that evil is present in the earth, we know that the love of God is greater.
Joshua 1:9 “The Lord my God is with me wherever I go.”
We must never forget.
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Nothing like a layover to get me blogging! In fact, I could use a few more right now to play a lil catch- up.
We are home from a weekend in San Antonio. Ministry on the road the past 5+ years has been adventurous. Along the way we have encountered incredible times worshipping with new people but the greatest treasure to me are the relationships formed. For instance, this weekend we were with pastors who have invited us back so many times they have become like family to us. We had enough down time to do some dining downtown and discovered we are all “foodies”! Really, aren’t all church people anyway? We schedule food around every meeting! But when someone offers to go off the beating path from chains, I love them more. Ha!
I just get a high off a chic restaurant. And Mexican food. With fresh guacamole. And a strong Diet Coke.
If ever you find yourself in San Antonio, go to Rosario’s for fresh mex or Zinc for dining downtown on a quaint outdoor patio.
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We are taking a lil weekend trip to Savannah today! We left the kids at home! Yeah! My mister is already pawing at me as I type this. Haha
We never get opportunities like this since our ministry usually revolves around weekends. I noticed we were opening and before Trent could say no, I booked this trip on Hotwire to sleep in the heavenly bed at the Westin Savannah Harbor Front.
Even better of a treat, some friends are joining us along with my brother and sis Bec.
I have few things on my list to see and eat, but I’m still making that list, so if you have any suggestions, please send!
Happy Weekend Everyone!
K
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I have had so much I have wanted to say lately but…
Now seems to be a better time. Life has challenges doesn’t it?! At least my real life does. I think this has become my motto this year, “I am living a REAL life.” I hate that I pull back from here when I am challenged because I know so many of us want to feel it’s not only raining on our patch of grass. That rain is fertilizing. Bring it..
The sun started peeking through my clouds the last couple weeks, so I figured I’d take a seat and say it. Is it only me or do you sometimes shy away also from celebrating for fear of impending doom that could sneak in?? Well… I’m not doing that anymore. I am going to overshadow the dark clouds with my light because I do feel like the sun is shining within.
Peek into my lil world and in the past week I
+pulled my kids out of school
+just decided after that I would homeschool them for a short season{ wonder if God heard my suggestion.hehe}
+started a new trend of eating dinner at home
+found a home we have been waiting on for over a year, or 3, daily watching every ad online
+finished my first solo studio project and wrote the last song while recording it
+worked with a design artist for direction on look of project
+signed up two boys in baseball and got them fully equipped
+Trent has been presented with the biggest opportunity of his music career regarding his next album (more info to come)
+I’m moving into the house this month
+3 wonderful opportunities for women’s events have been presented to me in the next few months (LOVE chic ministry)
+more pieces of a puzzle are falling into place revealing a greater story that involve the house we are getting.. and oranges
Every single item on my list has its own amazing story, some details not so amazing, but God…. provided grace for every place we walked and I have become more disciplined to be aware of that grace.
In the middle of now is where I am. I am not looking back and I can’t look to far ahead.. because I may panic and be anxious of the how.
God, my heart exults and triumphs in You. My strength is in You. My mouth is no longer silent: it is opened wide over my enemies because I rejoice in Your salvation 1 Samuel 2:1
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People are watching us as we stay at our post, alertly, unswervingly . . . in hard times, tough times, bad times; when we’re beaten up, jailed, and mobbed; working hard, working late, working without eating; with pure heart, clear head, steady hand; in gentleness, holiness, and honest love; when we’re telling the truth, and when God’s showing his power; when we’re doing our best setting things right; when we’re praised, and when we’re blamed; slandered, and honored; true to our word, though distrusted; ignored by the world, but recognized by God; terrifically alive, though rumored to be dead; beaten within an inch of our lives, but refusing to die; immersed in tears, yet always filled with deep joy; living on handouts, yet enriching many; having nothing, having it all.
These words slay me.
{2 Corinthians 6 message}
Hey Friends! We are excited to share some of our new music with you today!
Hope Is Alive is available on Amazon and soon coming to Itunes (a slight delay due to a Holiday glitch in their system). You can visit www.trentcory.com for Mp3 downloads, soundtrax, sheet music, and we even have a physical cd if you still want one!
Hope is Alive began with an idea Trent had one day about 6 weeks ago. We were home, kids were at school, it wasn’t planned….like at all… but about 10 minutes of worship at the keyboard turned into a vision. Trent said to me, “you know, when Jesus was born, HOPE was ALIVE” . In a matter of moments a full song was birthed we knew we had to release. So much vision has come with this title, Hope is Alive. We see a production, orchestration, scenes, dancers all to be created in the year ahead for the next Christmas season. We were already holding onto a song, You Light The World (which is track #3 on the EP). I thought maybe I would release it on my recording that is soon to come, but it fit so well with the Christmas theme that we tied it together.
And with sticking to Christmas tradition, Trent arranged a rockin’ version of Angels We Have Heard On High that has a great vibe.
I truly believe Hope Is Alive will be a Christmas anthem of the church worldwide for many years to come.
Go download…What are you waiting on!! {download here}
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I’m here.
I will not dish on the details of all the hell I have walked around in the month of October. Over coffee, call me maybe. Amazingly enough, and with God’s grace, I made it here to November with my nerves in tact. All the while, as hard as some things were to deal with, God countered my issues with His goodness and opportunities so great that I know God was saying, “I AM with you”. People that listen to our new music will have no idea that while I was standing in a recording studio, I was also going putting out fires the enemy started in my camp. The one moment I wanted to be happy about came with a side of poo. I can promise you my skin is so thick these days. I can say poo, and I can navigate through a field of it on my way to my assignment!
One thing that I have learned over and over is that the timing of God’s plans being fulfilled often comes with “a shaking”. My difficulty at times is discerning whether God is shaking the rug clean before I enter into the new thing, or if the enemy is just mad and kicking up the dust.
The still small voice of God reminds me that He is preparing us for GREATER things that we cannot see when these “dust storms” have us disoriented. The enemy loves smoke screens. If he can get you interested in his attractions, it’s his way of getting your eyes off the prize. He wants your focus.
When the dust settles, you will realize that the shaking has removed what cannot go with you into the next season.
If the size of problems could be viewed as an indication of the size of the promise, we could get psyched up on anticipation. Anticipation can propel us through the grind.
Matthew 10:22 says the he who endures til the end will be saved. This is directed to believers! Meaning, enduring is a part of the process! Enduring means s u f f e r i n g. EEEKKKK!
I can honestly say, every drastic change God has brought in my life has come with some suffering.
…we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. (Romans 5:3-5)
The enemy wants to silence your laughter. He wants you to veer off into isolation so he can be the only voice you hear. A voice of doubt and confusion.
If I could help you with what I have learned, I would say listen past the noise. Look past the haze of dust. Having an awareness of God’s presence disarms fear. Let suffering bring an awareness that God is on the scene transforming you.
We are above 10,000 feet. One stop away from Nashville and two days of band sessions with my mister, my producer James Matchack, and an A-list line up Nashville’s finest musicians.
James brings that kind of favor to us and we are so grateful for his influence in our lives+ friendship with his beautiful family.
I wanted to venture out on a different sound and style of music on this project. James has a deep background in modern country and CCM music, and is bringing brilliant ideas to the table on the songs, me, the mister, James, Darnell Miller, and John Wilds all have written for the project and I adore the tunes! We have a few cover songs that I LOVE to sing as well.
Can’t wait to share!
Video blog from the studio later 
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