Music
Music has played a very important part on my spiritual journey.
I have always loved to sing. My favorite Christmas gift as a child was a Donny & Marie microphone. Even when I was in high school, I would sing in front of my bedroom mirror to my favorite songs.
As I began opening up and paying new attention to life, I realized that Spirit was speaking to me through the lyrics of these songs, that this was one of the ways that I communicated with the Love of God.
As I sang these songs with my whole heart, I was actually praying with my whole heart. Music has transformed me and my life and I believe that in some way I don’t quite yet foresee, music will play a part in this ministry.
During the Covid shutdown, I was guided to go on a songwriter’s journey with The Brothers Koren which resulted in 2 original songs. Here they are along with the lyrics.
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Lyrics by Nicole Elise Arecchia Witt
Music by The Brothers Koren
No Apologies
I spent my life on a hamster wheel
Trying to prove who I am
Running around and around and around
Getting nowhere close
In a prison of my own making
Banging on the walls, I hear
Oh Sweet Child go sit down
Get still in the middle of your soul
I’m climbing to the light of the sun
Ready to shine
It’s time, time to be me
Stripped bare to rise up
Letting go of all that was
So the new can come in and carry me away
Lots of bumps and bruises on the way
Getting down to get back up
A little bit higher than when I began
Standing in the gap of love
Purification is not pretty
But it’s all we came to do
Living life with wild abandon
With honor I bow to you
I’m climbing to the light of the sun
Ready to shine
It’s time, time to be me
Stripped bare to rise up
Letting go of all the that was
So the new can come in and carry me away
And we, we all come out
As we put our toys away
We can dance in the light of love
With no apologies for who we were meant to be
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Lyrics by Nicole Elise Arecchia Witt
Music by The Brothers Koren
Speak Freely
Why don’t I speak freely
Tell you how I feel
Will you think less of me
That I’m in the hounds of hell
I don’t want to hurt you
But I’ve turned in on myself
I’m screaming but there’s no sound
Nothing’s coming out
You made your choice
And I made mine
Now it’s been 40 years the locusts have eaten
And I want them back, I do
Oh, I forgive us both for what we never did
Remember how you used to twirl me around the room in the light
Can I speak freely now?
If I now speak freely,
Will my life change
Become wild and unruly
Living off the edge
It’s time to tell a different story
One that all works out
One that says I am worthy
And now it’s good to shout
You made your choice
And I made mine
Now it’s been 40 years the locusts have eaten
And I want them back, I do
Oh, I forgive us both for what we never did
Remember how you used to twirl me around the room in the light
Can I speak freely now?
If I can just speak freely
Tell a different story
If I can just speak freely