Bethany Dillon’s sophomore album ‘Imagination’ will be in stores August 16. The album was produced by Ed Cash (2005 GMA Music Award-winning Producer of the Year) who also worked on her debut album. A recent press release gave us an idea of what we can expect:
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Cherie Adams’ new CD - The Sweet Life
Cherie’s album has a different feel than her work with Avalon - of which she was a member from 1998-2002. Musically, these songs have more of an organic, classically influenced sound. No synthesizers, drum loops, programming, or wall of layered sounds here. Lyrically, these are songs of reflection - looking back on the journey through the good times and bad. This is a record of hope and healing.
Check out this excellent commentary from Chuck Colson and Breakpoint:
The Power of Paradox - Stalking the Good Life
One of the great truths I’ve discovered, one I discuss at length in THE GOOD LIFE, is that life is filled with paradoxes. Things are not the way we think they’re going to be. For example, I’ve learned the greatest lessons in my life through suffering and defeats. And that’s the pattern of the cross, isn’t it? The great paradox: Adversity can produce the greatest blessings.
What discouraged me most about prison was not separation from my family, though that was tough. It wasn’t even associating with the people in prison, because I grew to love them. It wasn’t the fact that I was uncertain about when I’d be released, and it wasn’t the conditions, such as they were. As a Marine I had lived in dormitories and foxholes — I could handle prison.
No, the most excruciating pain was the realization that all of my dreams had been shattered. I felt I would never be able to do anything significant with my life again. I had gone into politics because I wanted to make a difference in the world. Now I was a disgraced convict, a Watergate felon in a prison cell. My dreams were over.
But, of course, there’s the paradox. God used prison to prepare me for the greatest experience and blessing possible. This ministry over the last thirty years has been infinitely rewarding, much more so than my career in politics. I’ve had what I believed is the greatest opportunity of a good life, and that is, you see, to help others. I’m seventy-three and looking back on my life, what means the most to me aren’t the things I was able to do for myself or accomplish, but the way in which God used me to touch the lives of others.
