Lindsay and Marilyn Terry
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Published Works
I want to tell you about a song story book that was recently published. Hal Leonard Corporation, the largest print music publishing company in the world, contacted me and told me that they wanted to publish a book containing some of most popular worship songs in the world.
Normally they print secular music such as broadway musicals and the latest in popular compositions. However, this time they said that they not only wanted to publish the worship songs, but also wanted to include the stories behind each of the songs. They asked if I would take on the project of providing the stories behind the songs. I agreed to do so, and was sent a list of the songs they were publishing.
They had, at first, considered scattering the stories throughout the book, or perhaps putting them in the back of the book, along with some biographical information about me, but before going to press they decided to put the stories and the bio material right up front. You can see a copy of the book on this web site.
You can order the book from amazon.com or halleonard.com or call 1-800-554-0626. Most of the Hal Leonard music is sold in secular music stores.
The Paintings
In this blog we want to share some news about Marilyn. Many of you know what she has endured in the past six or seven months, but not everyone has heard so consider the following,
In December, 2008, Marilyn was diagnosed with “stage 3” breast cancer. She had been seeing specialists and gynecologists for fifteen years trying to find out why she had so much pain and so many problems in the left breast. After many mammograms, cyst aspirations, an MRI, X-rays, CT Scans, etc., etc., showed no definite problems, a wonderful surgeon, Dr. Leopoldo Gonzalez, who only does breast surgery, decided to take four biopsy samples of a suspicious area. Four days later he informed us that Marilyn had cancer.
She took four treatments of chemotherapy, which Dr. Gonzalez said completely annihilated the cancer. A tumor the size of a quarter had completely disappeared. However, he and Marilyn had already decided that a mastectomy should be done. That was completed on June 4, 2009. Several lymph nodes were taken which were negative for cancer cells. Therapists are now working with her to get her range of motion back to normal. She is doing fine.
Her oncologist, Dr. Marc Warmuth, has informed us that CT Scans, an MRI, bone scans, etc., have revealed that she does not have any detectable cancer anywhere else in her body. For all of these things we truly thank the Lord! We are grateful to so many who prayed daily and regularly for her.
She is now being helped at home by therapists who are trying to get her back to a normal range of motion with the left arm. Lymph nodes were removed from under her arm.
As I write this information about her, she has gone upstairs to her studio and is now painting again. During her treatments it was almost impossible for her to continue painting. She is working on a beautiful Florida scene that we hope to show you in the web site in the very near future. Continue to pray for Marilyn and her complete recovery.
Life’s Journey
Abortion
A baby is a small member of the human family who makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, the bank roll smaller, the home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.
Do you know what is the number one surgery performed in America? It used to be tonsillectomy. That is no longer the case. Believe it or not, today, it is abortion. According to the latest figures, since Roe vs Wade went into effect, there have been more than forty million abortions.
Here is a most profound statement from a letter to the editor of a periodical, addressing a basic question: “A person’s death should not precede his birth.” This is exactly what happens in abortion, which should be defined honestly.
Abortion means ending a pregnancy. Most abortions are done in the first trimester (the first 3 months of the pregnancy). They are done by a doctor and other health care professionals in a hospital, doctor’s office or health center. There are two types of abortion: medical and surgical. Currently, abortion laws vary from country to country, with regard to religious, moral, and cultural sensibilities.
Every physician who performs abortions will readily tell you that during the procedure, in any stage of the pregnancy, something living is killed.. The life that has begun in the womb of the mother is brought to a swift and deadly end. That is an indisputable fact, not a moral judgement.
Yes! Scientists agree that a new and unique human individual is created at the moment of conception. From that moment --when life begins--any further formation of the person is a matter of time, growth and maturation -- a process that each of us continues throughout our entire life.
Helpful Scriptures:
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. - Psa. 139:13,14
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. - Isaiah 49:1
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. - Jeremiah. 1:5
I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion
has already been born.
- Ronald Reagan
I’ll never walk the shores of life
Or know the tides of time.
For I was coming, but unloved;
And that, my only crime.
- From Ballad of the Unknown by Fay Clayborn
The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. She buys the product, finds it defective and wants to return it for a refund. But, it’s too late.- Carol Everett
Friday, July 3, 2009
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