KathyLesure

“New Beginnings” – part seven of my series. My debut EP drops in the seventh month. Seems like PERFECT timing to talk about the three young people who made MY life new.

My children.❤️❤️❤️❤️

They are the reason I tried SO hard. They are the reason I didn’t (and don’t … and won’t) ever give up! God knew EXACTLY (“zackly” 😂 – in the words of Rudy, my special needs child ❤️) what to do to motivate His child to persist in a world that had not been kind. He gave me my children and with them, another gift:

The gift of songwriting! ✍🏾

I started writing cute, little baby jingles to make them smile! I made their songs up; pretty much on the spot, to match their little personalities.🙂 The more giggles and toothless, head back, open-mouth, belly laughs I got; the better (longer) the song!!! 😂

I wrote my first “real” song after the birth of my ‘rainbow’ baby.🌈👶🏽 I’d had major postpartum depression following a second trimester miscarriage after my boys were born.😔 It’s like: I felt ‘flutters’ and heard a heartbeat at one doctor’s visit. By the next one, the baby was no more.🥺😔 God gave me beauty for ashes once again when my then husband and I conceived within the next six months!

One day almost 23 years ago, I was sitting at the kitchen table listening to my sons play games and watching my daughter eating her fists and kicking her little chubby legs in the baby carrier when I heard a tune as clear as day. These words looped in my head:

You make me wanna dance
I feel like dancin’
Your love is so amazing
I feel like dancin’

The Holy Spirit instantly dropped the whole song into my lap! When I realized what was happening, I ran and got a tape recorder to preserve the words!! Almost 23 years later, I’ll release it on my debut EP.

The Lord knew EXACTLY what He was doing when He gave them to me.❤️ Two bouncing baby boys. One little girl. They are my finest accomplishment. They saved me.

Beauty for ashes indeed.🤗🥰

(You) Make Me Wanna Dance is dedicated to my baby who I’ll hold someday in Heaven! 💕👼🏽💕