I can't even believe it, but it happened.
I broke the low E string on my guitar, and a day later I broke the two highest strings on my Lyre. These things never seem to happen when you have TIME to spend on fixing them. My guitar string broke a few minutes before sound check, I ran out to the RV but couldn't find my spare set of strings any where. My father ended up lending me his guitar. <3
The lyre strings broke just before our TV spot a day later, I'd already ripped through my spare string, and then my lyre overbalanced while I was tuning and it landed (String side) on my knee. It was a little disheartening, not gonna lie. Fortunately Rick and Mary Woods had provided my mother with her own, so I borrowed my mother's Lyre, and it sounded just as nice. :)

It seems that every time I'm writing a blog, or answering an e-mail, I look up at the clock and realize it's 3 am.
As I sit here, rattling away on my keyboard. I look over at my grey Lyre case and smile, remembering that two of my strings were once sitting in a box, awaiting a short life on some young hopeful's electric guitar.
It's almost a perfect parallel of my life, I wanted to be Amy Lee before I knew Amy Lee existed. I used to think that I could use the darker part of myself to reach other people, but now that the hormones have calmed down a little, and I watched what Amy Lee went through, I realized the wisdom in trying to draw inspiration from the good things in life. We can always use more optimism in the world. I actually think it can be easier to draw from our negative experiences when we're trying to express something deeper. I think one of the biggest breakthroughs I had, as a songwriter, was when I realized that "Deep" didn't mean "negative" and "writing honest-human music" didn't mean revealing all your insecurities/fears all the time. I aspired to what I thought was greatness, I was wanting to be seen as some one real, and strong, and special. What I probably would have done instead, would have been to put more fuel on the fires of negative thinking. Just like those electric guitar strings, I was ready to sing my edgy, angst-ridden heart out to a sea of ears that would only hear screaming. I was placed instead, in a family of Yeshua lovin' hippies, and I sing soft, soft love songs to the only being who gets the subtext in my words. Instead I got beauty for edgy-ness, peace for anger, and songs instead of screaming. I like that exchange.
I'm so glad those younger teenage years are over, and that I'm doing this with my life instead. I was about to say "You have no idea" but I believe a lot of you do. =) God Bless!

~Kerah

 Hey everybody!
Over the past several months, I've been utilizing my webcam and documenting pieces of our journey. I've just recently figured out how to upload these videos to youtube, and then Link them HERE!
I've been busy as a bee sorting through them and editing, but I can't wait to share them with you. 
A few are out of date by several months, but I think you'll like catching up on some of our past adventures we haven't had a chance to share!
I also plan to place a few teaser clips of us practicing some of the new material in the blogs, so keep your ears peeled. ;)

We're in Texas now, and looking forward to revisiting some congregations we haven't been to in a year or two, the weather's good, we're not too close to Juarez and we're hoping to get more headway in the new music, can't wait to share it all with you!
God bless <3

 Later that same week I was presented with a very blunt sort of wake up call concerning my future.
It came in the form of very pointed questions from my best friend’s mom.
She asked me what I saw myself doing in the next five years, and I had no idea how to answer.
I drew a blank. I had no active plans or ideas, just dreams and hopes. Needless to say it really got me thinking.
So over the past year, I asked God for clarity and over the months pieces of a plan started coming together.

A year or two ago I got a word about ministering in New York, I really wasn't sure about it.
I was born in California, and raised in a tiny mid-western town in Kansas, so big cities have never been my thing.
I held it up in prayer and expected the idea to slowly fade away.
It didn't.
Instead I started seeing similarities between New York City, and the bigger cities in Israel, my heart started softening, and during our Israel trip in the spring of 09'
I got a word about "Branching out" from a friend at the first concert we played after we got back to America.
I got another word about "Branching out" then another and another.

This was the confirmation I was looking for to finally focus on writing new material, and starting work on a solo Demo project.
And it was also the beginning of confirmation about ministering in New York.
I started discussing a break from touring with my parents.
Not a week long break, or a two week long break, but a three month break, we were soon covering the idea with prayer regularly, discussing options, and pouring over our schedule to consider the feasibility.
Plans started falling together supernaturally, and everything lined up perfectly to allow us time to record our new album as part of our break from touring!

During this interesting season of preparation, I heard about the Stilettos run for Stop Child Trafficking Now, and knew I needed to go to New York to be a part of their fund raiser, and that opened a whole new can of worms as I planned a ten day trip to New York City with my best friends (who were more than happy to go along with the crazy scheme.) That trip was a total miracle, every where we went we met believers who opened their homes to us, so we didn’t need to pay for hotels (Which was good, because God provided enough for food and Metro Cards for the train.) The day of the run it rained, heavily and continually. Despite the rain and the freezing cold, hundreds of people showed up to support the cause. Over $40,000 were raised in one afternoon. Money that will go towards rescuing children from sexual slavery, to help fund the Navy Seals who have dedicated time to apply their skills to tracking down sexual predators in America/save the children from prostitution, to raise awareness of this criminal business, and to petition for more strict laws against it in our country. I have continued to send funds their way ever since, and have had the privilege to connect a few people with similar visions with this non-profit organization.
Around this event I was able to spend time building friendships with young Messianic believers, and I fell in love with New York. (Didn’t see that coming. Silly me, so blind!)

Meanwhile God has continued to bless and direct all our plans for this summer. He connected us with several anointed gifted people to help us with this album, and we are getting more and more excited as we work on our new material.

Pray for this project, it will cost a lot of money that only God can provide. Sometimes being poor is irritating, but it teaches us to be more dependant on God’s mercy, so I can’t really complain. =)