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BlessedAngel1983 wrote:The Perrys need to come to SC! I've decided that...lol. Either that or the Charlotte area.

liberty wrote:Almost Morning is a special song to Tracy and I. Joseph and Matthew wrote that song back in May last year. A lot you know that at the end of May last year, my 22 year old niece came to live with Tracy and I. She had been battling alcohol for quite some time and was just starting to try different drugs. After coming to us in a concert in Lawrenceville, GA one night crying, saying she needed help, we told her to go home and get enough clothes to do a month and we would try to help her as much as we could. She had been raised in church since she was a baby, but the last few years drifted away and found other things that sufficed her. She was very hard hearted and I told Tracy I didn't know if we could help her or not because she was holding on so much to her friends (who were not good for her). I took her to Lifeway and bought her a bible and a journal and she said oh I have a bible somewhere. I said, somewhere? That tells me that it's not been read in a while! So I told her I wanted her to read something in the bible everyday, whether a verse, chapter or whatever as long as she was reading it. The bible was a Addiction Bible, which is very good because it has a lot of questions and answers a person with addictions might ask themselves. I also told her that I wanted her to write in her journal every day about how she was feeling for that day. She was like why? I told her because after she would finally give up and surrender to the Lord, she could go back and read where He brought her from. Well, she didn't really want to do any of it, but she did because she knew I would be asking her about it. About 3 weeks after she came with us, we were singing in Calhoun, GA at a church we have been to several times. The night before Joseph sang Almost Morning for Tracy and I going down the road because he and Matthew had just finished writing it. The next night in Calhoun while we were singing,
I stopped what we were doing and ask Joseph to sing this new song they had just finished writing, because I felt within my spirit that someone was needing to hear this song. Now, I had no idea that what happened next would happen! Joseph started singing the song and by the time it got to the chorus, my niece was in
the altar!! I went down to pray with her and she was there for a good bit and when she finally came up from there, she just glowed!!!!! You could tell that she had given it all to the Lord! From that moment on, she has been a changed person. She still lives with us. She met a great christian guy from our church who had pretty much came out of the same stuff she had and they started dating and now they are getting married June 13, 2009. I really believe with all my heart that Almost Morning brought her to the point to where she knew the song was about her.
About the journal.......I called home a couple weeks ago and she was crying. When I ask why, she said I was sitting here reading my journal and I can't believe how far God has brought me, from where I was 10 months ago. She said, I am so glad you encouraged me to write what I was feeling because I can truly see what a different person I am today.

Just wanted to share this story with you and let you know one of the reasons for putting it on the album was for my niece and so many other people in the world that is in the same place she was a year ago.

frog43 wrote:I talked to our pastor this morning, who told me that the May 29 date at First Baptist, Sevierville, is not a church function, but a group borrowing our church. So I guess we shouldn't plan to be there that night.

But Randy said he would work on getting them here. Yea!!!!!

frog43 wrote:Oh, I'll be there one way or another!