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Sometimes it’s a little hard to get up and write about inspirational music when the world is facing such trouble. The man-made stuff like war is bad enough, but it’s the so-called “natural disasters” that really spook us all.

Tonight I shall forego my usual thoughts on Inspirational music and concentrate instead on a great lesson learned decades ago by a young man out on his own in the world for the first time and struggling with life’s many temptations. I shall kid you not and tell you right from the beginning of this tale that the young man in question was I. The tale is true.

I’ve been working on loving more. It makes me a bit uneasy just to say it. I mean, why should I have to ‘work’ to do that? I’m sorry to have to say it. I know it should come more naturally – to love more – but I just went through a pretty terrific healing and one of the things I identified in my negative thinking as I worked to clean it up was that I simply needed to love more. Love people, love what I do, love God – more.

Here at Watchfire Music we like to define Inspirational music as a very wide umbrella incorporating not only sacred music of all denominations, but also any music that uplifts the mind, that enlivens the soul, that inspires. So love songs are inspirational, motivational songs are inspirational and even issue songs can be inspirational.

To that end, I have been working on just such an issue song for the last month that has got me lying awake at night. I can’t get the energies, the melodies, the rhythms and the words out of my brain long enough to go to sleep. Now its haunting me with both its intent and its intensity.

Last fall, as many of you know, Watchfire Music presented a series of Inspirational music concerts here in NYC under the banner of the WFM Listening Room. Julia Wade, Watchfire Music’s best-selling artist, headlined five of these concerts with various opening acts chosen from a wonderful list of New York talent.

Inspirational music comes in all shapes and sizes, colors and variations. Last night I had the exquisite pleasure of seeing and hearing, what is for me, the best of it. A friend won tickets to hear the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and knowing that this noble orchestra is my absolute favorite in the world, invited me to tag along.

OK, now you get to use your imagination. Imagine those multi-colored triangle pennants flapping in the breeze surrounding the marquee “Watchfire Music Learning Lab – Grand Opening”. Add some triumphant music played by a brass band and people flocking into the store excited to buy. What are they buying? Knowledge.

The Missus and I used to have a home tucked away in the mountains of Colorado. There, I could steal away into my studio and write and produce Inspirational music to my heart’s content without interruption, without sirens, without telephone – even the neighbors were far away. Part of my reason for buying this home was to find the seclusion to write and focus. It didn’t always turn out that way.