Christa Wells

So, yes, by the time you see this, it is likely Tuesday, so perhaps “Tune Tuesday” will be more appropriate. I got caught up in children swimming and restoring some beauty and order to the chaos that is our master bathroom.  What is it about cleaning out one nasty drawer that can give one hope [...]

I’ve been learning freedom on a long, slow curve. Emphasis on slow. I believe that when we meet God…when He makes Himself known to us…the cage door is thrown open, we are given power to live BEYOND.  Beyond ourselves, beyond the temporal, beyond the visible, beyond… So why are so many of us still sitting [...]

Must.Write.Now. It’s a bit obvious when the songwriter in this house has stayed away too long from writing, because she starts getting just a LITTLE bit grumpy.  A TINY bit irritable.  Easily IRKED.  Not by political leaders or financial crises or even by semi-big deals like being behind (again) on emails or (chronically) filing paperwork. [...]

Santa Semana–Holy Week–is a week to weigh costs. Fuel is nearly $3/gallon, unemployment at 9%…the $3 coffee that seemed nothing a year ago we now hesitate or pass on.  We feel the emptying of the bank account as we pay utility bills, mortgage, car… But this is a week to consider the price tag on [...]

I made myself wait these past several months, and now we’re ready to share the music we made last summer/fall before heading out to Costa Rica.  And now…I’m both eager and a little shy about actually shipping.  :) How Emptiness Sings is a 7-track EP, all new originals, recorded & produced by Zodlounge (Nashville, TN), [...]

(Photographs in this post were a gift from my young reader/listener/writer friend Abby Ang.  Enjoy Abby’s words here.) *Adding here to my original post, based on an interaction with a lovely young lady I hope to one day meet. She wrote: At each stage of this journey, it seems the more productive I am…the more [...]

A minute or two of some car convo on the songwriting process, followed by some in-the-studio eavesdropping. The two songs you’ll hear portions of on this clip are: The Best Thing (inspired by this post) and Kingdom Coming (on our response as Christ-followers to physical & spiritual poverty around us…I’ll be writing more about that [...]

It’s obvious she has the bug.  She is 6 and can’t keep from it.   Small brown fingers push the sound from the ivory and I watch her do what I do. Play.  Evaluate.  Try a new way.  Repeat.  Build a pattern, wonder where it must go next. She is emotive.  Sometimes loud.  Often tragic (her [...]

I begin by seeing (I’m a visual learner).  Feeling waves roll in, scales fall, the earth shift slightly underfoot…how have I lived this long and not known this? A secret overlay becomes visible and wheels turn…scaffolding is erected on the interior walls of the mind, frames hung, phrases chalked alongside, and I start the climb… [...]

Writing again the past few days (nights, really)…remembering that sometimes a three-minute song requires days or weeks of loving, painstaking labor…shaping, like wet hands sliding over clay, forming, pressing, turning… Not always.  There are those glorious, rapturous moments when inspiration swoops swiftly down, blowing through a writer like a sudden wind.   But not often. [...]