Have you ever made plans to do something, but it did not work out? I’m sure that most of us have. Disappointment is not a stranger, especially to those who
Reviewed by James Lewis
Mark Heard, as you may know, died some two years ago, leaving his wife and daughter with massive medical bills not covered by medical insurance. This album is a benefit for the Heard Family Fund made up of freshly recorded covers of his songs together with a few previously released samples of his writing talents. For your money, you get 17 tracks filling up the CD to capacity and they re all well worth it. (Confusingly, you get less tracks on the cassette version but two tracks that aren t on the CD!) Mark was acknowledged by his peers, if not by his record sales, as a master songwriter and the quality material here is given the treatment it deserves. Artists here include names familiar to CCM fans together with names you may have only heard of in Cross Rhythms. Bruce Cockburn, The Call s Michael Been, Victoria Williams, Vigilantes Of Love, Tonio K, Julie Miller, The Choir and DC Talker, Kevin Smith amongst others all contribute their versions of Mark Heard s
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+ April 11, 2021 IF ONLY I could find reason to encourage nothing but positivity in daily life so that the reality of suffering can be eased, even erased.but no. The virus epidemic is real and it is interplaying with assorted things with strings being played by no less, it seems, than the devil himself. And we find ourselves inevitably somewhere in the maelstrom.
Catholic mystics tell us that someday, after these times of apocalyptic tribulations, there will be a period wherein the earth would be literally heavenly but then the end of the world would still come and leave us with only two destinations; Heaven and hell.