" Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain."

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

O Holy Night


Two nights before Courtney's surgery to remove a brain tumor that turned out to be malignant, a friend of ours, Gary McClellan, knew we were trying to record as much of Courtney's music as possible and invited us over to record a few songs. While we were there, he asked her to sing to an arrangement of "O Holy Night" that his son had arranged. We just did a couple of quick take. Courtney was pretty sick and stressed, and she would have preferred to have had her voice in better shape and had more time to work-up this song. In the bustle of surgery and such, we kind of forgot about it. A week before Christmas, Gary, together with another friend of ours, Bill Griffiths, brought this video to us. They had arranged it and very thoughtfully and purposefully put these pictures to it. They took what we thought was just going to be a casual quick recording and turned it into a what we think is a beautiful work that still brings tears to our eyes. We used this as a Christmas gift for family members and thought we'd share it with all of you as well. We hope it inspires you the way His life has inspired and given us hope.




10 comments:

Cooper Family said...

Beautiful! O Holy Night is my favorite Christmas song.

We love you,
Jen & Todd and the boys.

Emily said...

Just beautiful! I got chills. Thank You for sharing that with us!

Anonymous said...

So, SO beautiful Courtney! I just love your voice and you did a fantastic job on this son. You are wonderful!

Amanda said...

so very beautiful Courtney!

The Whitaker Family said...

Wow!

That was wholly and utterly gorgeous. I was moved and transfixed. The song, the voice and the slideshow...

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Aubrie said...

Courtney, you have the voice of an angel. Thank you for sharing this beautiful family memory with us.

Unknown said...

what a precious and meaningful gift. we just love it. thank you.
tracy

Jason and Emily said...

Just stopping by and loving you.

Darrell said...

Beautiful beautiful beautiful!

Love you guys!

Always in our thoughts and prayers.

TerryO said...

This song is absolutely beautiful! Mesmorising musoc that brings joy and peace and love all at the same time. Yhank you.
Keep happy and enjoy your life to the full.
You are in our thoughts always.
Terry and family in England xxx